During my final year at school I had my life mapped out. I wanted to go to university, be a speech therapist for a few years; be married at twenty-four and have a family by twenty-eight. I would definitely give up work for a while because at that time I did not agree with the philosophy of being a working mother. Why should you bring a child into this world if you could not look after it twenty four hours a day? Yet it did not work out that way ultimately for me and many others. In the early 1980’s there were still many mothers who stayed at home but since then it seems that Britain has had a major change in its values and society as most women now work and bring up a family too, adding to the stresses of modern day living.
