Being an At Home Mother
While I was growing up, and during my pregnancy with my first child, Finn, now three and a half, I always thought I would work outside the home as well as having my children. I believed: it would provide ‘a healthy balance' for me to work part-time, that it was important to share in the bringing in of income into the household, that I would avoid the ‘trap of female dependence' (I'd read a lot of Simone de Beauvoir and other feminist writers), and that it was important to keep my mind active.
