... and also Jolanda, Mothers will fight big battles for their kids as well, as you would know.

Hi Liz
I remember you. You’re the high school teacher that doesn’t like men in the education system, (and then wouldn’t answer questions regards that).

I have had some experience in science, and even high school students are taught the basics of the scientific method, but whether or not the scientific method is a part of social science is totally debatable.

This is a study of 103 1st year university students, and this is supposed to represent about 200,000 19 yr old people currently in Australia.

To many social scientists, the results of the survey would represent about 200,000 19yr olds in Australia, but to many statisticians, the results of the survey would only represent the 103 1st year university students who took part in the survey.

I don’t know how many people I have known who have said that having social science taught in universities has only devalued their own degree.

Yes you are right Liz. Mothers will fight big battles for their kids, we can turn into very big Mamma Bears when our children are hurting and being targeted or treated unfairly.

The biggest issue with mothers is the negative attitude people have towards them. There seems to be no respect for mothers, if a mother stands up for her child/children they are automatically seen as being biased and/or pushy.

Society needs to change their attitude towards mothers as the majority of them take their responsbilities seriously and they will fight for thier children's right to be treated fairly.

There isn't enough community support for mothers, not even by other mothers and that is negatively impacting on the children.

Jolander,
It is very concerning that mothers are not supporting or recognizing other mothers. We have a situation where the term father has been reduced to “partner” or “non-residential parent”, and about 1 in 4 children will not see their father on Mother’s Day.

But now mothers are not supporting or recognizing mothers also.

Mothers’s Day may have to be called something else in the future.

The lack of respect for mothers lies directly at the feet of womens liberation. They never fought for status and respect and financial support for the job of motherhood instead they said that was boring and they only applauded women who were lawyers or business women. Is it any wonder that the work world is seen as more important than the job of motherhood when womens liberation itself said that it was.

It only reinforced the idea in mens minds that the work they did in the world was more important than the work women did in the world.

Single mothers are treated with a lot of disrespect in this society and that is because the word mother appears in their title. It is actually the word mother that is being disrespected as though motherhood has no value unless there is a man and a male job attached somehow. Womens liberation is also once again responsible for this disrespect of the word mother in favour of male values.