Families who did the main bulk of their parenting in the 1970s and 80s, didn’t know they had it so good, according to today’s young mums.<\/p>\n
New research looking at the perceptions of motherhood from the 1930s to 2011, has just been released Procter & Gamble (P&G).<\/p>\n
Referred to by today’s hard pressed mothers as the ‘Golden Ages’ to bring up a baby, the 70s and 80s are perceived to be less pressured than contemporary living.<\/p>\n
The Changing Face of Motherhood <\/strong>report, also found that 34 per cent of mums believe they have less time for themselves than their mothers did, with 18 per cent of them having just 26 minutes a day.<\/p>\n The demands of having to go out to work and too much pressure to be a perfect parent were two of the main reasons mums quoted for less ‘me time’.<\/p>\n The research also found that mums spend 126 minutes every day looking after their children, with 20 per cent spending more than 28 hours a week of ‘active time’ with their children.<\/p>\n But whilst modern mothers are lamenting their lack of personal time, a staggering 68 per cent of mums still manage to Skype, text and use online social networks. .<\/p>\n Kate Fox, spokesperson for (SIRC) who conducted the research said: \u201cMotherhood has never been, and never should be, a solitary endeavour. With the increasing pressure on mothers to work a ‘double shift’ – to be the perfect mother as well as a wage-earner – support networks are more important than ever. And mothers are using every means of communication available to build the strong communities and networks of family and friends that they need.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Families who did the main bulk of their parenting in the 1970s and 80s, didn’t know they had it so<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":16,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"colormag_page_container_layout":"default_layout","colormag_page_sidebar_layout":"default_layout","footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12086","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bristol-news"],"yoast_head":"\n