Working Womens Kids More Likely to be Sick or Poisoned

[sarad]

Re: Working Womens Kids More Likely to be Sick or Poisoned

@Spock

Bibi jee, its the National Institute of Health, and you cant even say they’re biased because if they were, you’d expect a western source to be skewed to the other direction. Think about it, it’s obvious that if a none of the parents are around to spend the most important time in a child’s upbringing at home, the child is at the mercy of whoever is in charge.

p.s. I’ve seen here on this forum everyone’s quoting their own examples and passing that on as a clear verdict. Sorry but I would take NIH’s research as an authority over these little ‘oh my relatives auntys uncles bachas tayas did that and never got poisoned’ sorta anecdotes. The comparison of your anecdote is not even remotely logical. NIH’s research was done to prove through probabilistically acquired means about the likeliness, and you dismissed this well researched and self explanatory research by citing one example of your aunt.

I disagree because here in this forum you are getting individual but desi perspective/experience.

The article/research states that the chances of accidents in children aged 7-17 are more for where mothers are working and I think it is probably because children this age go back home after school even if there is no one at home.

I am a working mother but I will not let my 7 year old come to an empty house after school while I work. I will find some way. Change job timings, get close to family or something.
I think most desi mothers will make some arrangement. You can call it a cultural difference. I am not saying western mothers are less concerned about their children but it is just how desi and western difference is.

Many if not all desi families or as many as I know either have the inlaws or parents living close by or sometimes living in the same home. The children go back to daada daadi or naana naani’s home after school or they have some arrangement like that.