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Mums who stay at home to bring up their families suffer more worry, sadness, stress and anger than mums who work.
Researchers studied more than 60,000 randomly-chosen 18-64 year-old women and found that stay-at-home-mums were more depressed than their go-to-work counterparts.
The study was carried out by respected polling company Gallup in the US and revealed that 41% of house-based mums experienced worry while just 34% of employed mothers experience the same feeling.
It also found that 28% of mothers who don't work experience depression while just 17% of employed mothers experience the same feeling.
Perhaps most heart-rending is the fact that home mums were "less likely to say they smiled or laughed a lot, learned something interesting and experienced enjoyment and happiness".
Dr Robi Ludwig, a New York psychotherapist, told the Today show: "Isolation is a killer. We as human beings are not meant to be alone. The more we're alone, the more we look at all the things we feel are not right with our lives.
"It contributes to people getting into a negative, self-attacking mentality."
She said that stay-at-home mothers can struggle to feel as though they are accomplishing things for themselves.
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It's hard to define themselves because they're overloaded with the have-to-dos of the home.
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"It's a job that's never complete. There's always something that needs to be done. They can feel like an indentured servant."
As a stay-at-home-dad who became the primary child carer to my three kids after being made redundant, I suggest this also applies to reluctant house dads, too.
From your own experience, does this ring true for you?
Shouldn't we just, as mums - working full-time, part-time, stay-at-home - simply support each other in the decisions we make for our families and ourselves?
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<p> “You’re not a mother until you’ve had nits.”</p> <p> <strong>TV star Coleen Nolan</strong></p>
<p> “I was not a classic mother...I didn’t bake cookies. You can buy cookies, but you can’t buy love.”</p> <p> <strong>Actress Raquel Welch </strong> </p>
<p> <strong><em>“</em></strong>Cleaning your house while your kids are still growing is like shovelling the walk before it stops snowing.”</p> <p> <strong>Actress Phyllis Diller</strong></p>
<p> “Ask your child what he wants for dinner only if he is buying.”</p> <p> <strong>Author Fran Lebowitz</strong></p>
<p> “Life is tough enough without having someone kick you from the inside.”</p> <p> <strong>Comedienne Rita Rudner</strong></p>
<p> “Having a baby is like watching two very inefficient removal men trying to get a very large sofa through a very small doorway, only in this case you can't say, 'Oh, sod it, bring it through the French windows.'"</p> <p> <strong>Comedienne Victoria Wood</strong></p>
<p> “You can’t qualify in the subject but you’re expected to have a vast number of qualifications: chauffer, diplomat, vet, clown, Blue Peter presenter, chef, paramedic, critic, referee, weapons inspector, therapist, computer expert, liar.”</p> <p> <strong>Actress Imogen Stubbs</strong></p>
<p> “A mother is a person who seeing there are only four pieces of pie for five people, promptly announces she never did care for pie.<strong>"</strong></p> <p> <strong>Author </strong><strong>Tenneva Jordan </strong></p>
<p> "The first time you leave your child at school you're faced with a tough decision - down the pub or back to bed?”</p> <p> <strong>Comedienne Jo Brand</strong></p>
<p> "There never was a child so lovely but his mother was glad to get him asleep.” </p> <p> <strong>Poet Ralph Waldo Emerson</strong></p>
<p> “A mother always has to think twice, once for herself and once for her child."</p> <p> <strong>Actress Sophia Loren </strong></p>
<p> "Any mother could perform the jobs of several air-traffic controllers with ease."</p> <p> <strong>American writer Lisa Alther</strong></p>
<p> “Nothing will ever make you as happy or sad, as proud or as tired as motherhood.”</p> <p> <strong>Author Elia Parsons</strong></p>
<p> "A mother “is a nutritionist, a child psychologist, an engineer, a production manager, an expert buyer, all in one.”</p> <p> <strong>Anthropologist Margaret Mead </strong></p>
<p> “Motherhood is “having someone else to blame when there is a rude smell in the air.”</p> <p> <strong>Actress Jane Horrocks</strong></p>
<p> “You know you really are a mother when: you use your own saliva to clean your child's face; your child throws up and you catch it.”</p> <p> <strong>Humorist Erma Bombeck</strong></p>
<p> “The story of a mother’s life: Trapped between a scream and a hug.”</p> <p> <strong>Cartoonist</strong><strong> Cathy Guisewite</strong></p>
<p> “Motherhood is not for the fainthearted. Frogs, skinned knees, and the insults of teenage girls are not meant for the wimpy.”</p> <p> <strong>Author Danielle Steel</strong></p>
<p> “Never being number one in your list of priorities and not minding at all.”</p> <p> <strong>Model and designer Jasmine Guinness</strong></p>
<p> “Everybody wants to save the earth; nobody wants to help mom with the dishes.”</p> <p> <strong>Writer P.J. O’Rourke </strong></p>
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