Brit mums get just 26 minutes of ‘me time’ a day
March 8th, 2011 - 2:00 pm ICT by ANILondon, March 08 (ANI): UK researchers have discovered the amount of time the typical working mum gets to relax each day - just 26 minutes.
Juggling a job with looking after kids means the average British mum does not even get half an hour to herself, a study revealed.
The report - issued to coincide with International Women’s Day - also found no let-up in later life when kids have left home.
Once they become grans they end up looking after little ones all over again, according to the Social Issues Research Centre.
Its major report - called the Changing Face of Motherhood - reveals the pressures modern-day mums face compared to previous generations dating back to the 1930s.
Key findings are:
Three out of ten reckon they have far less “me time” than their own mothers did - barely three hours a week on average.
Almost nine in ten feel guilty about the amount of time they spend with their kids - typically 145 minutes a day.
But despite their heroic efforts, three in ten of the 1,000 women who took part in the study confessed to feeling under constant pressure to be “the perfect mother”.
The research centre said families and fellow mums were becoming more essential than ever in helping hard-pressed women cope.
“There is increasing pressure on mothers to work a ‘double shift’ - to be the perfect mother as well as a wage-earner,” the Sun quoted co-director Kate Fox as saying. (ANI)
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