Passage 6

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In plain words

Girls who are educated keep going off wanting to take jobs. If mothers go off to jobs, who will do the work of the house? “If husband and wife both go to offices, where are the mothers to nurture the children?” They simply put an ayah in place to look after the children. But will she look after the children with love as the mother who bore them would? So mothers themselves must look after the children, even if it means giving up the job. “If they take up books and go out like men, where are the women to tend the kitchen?” From the office they phone the cook: “We will come home at five; have the tea ready.” Whether the things needed to make tea are in the house at all, they do not trouble about. Coming home from the office, they sit reading the newspaper and watching TV. Some, instead of coming home, go to clubs and play silly games. All this brings dishonour on themselves alone. How can such people bring children up well? So you must first set the affairs of your home in order, and only after that turn your attention to affairs outside. If the children at home suffer no hardship of any kind, the mother too may certainly take a job; there is nothing wrong in that. But to go off leaving the children to the ayah and the cook is not good. Looking after the children is the parents' chief responsibility. If the mother goes to the office she may earn some money, but there is a matching expense as well.