To ask your views :- Is being a mum a job.

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I can not decide if being a mum is a job.

I do see this a lot on Facebook, under employment is full time mummy.

Aibu to think if a mum is a job I want my employment rights, such as 21 day holiday.

Oh sweet baby Jesus, not this bloody argument again.

Work, don't work just get in with it

Yabu yabu yabu yabu yabu

It's a choice not a job!!

Pay me more than I earn now and I'll do it and count it as a job happily.

well, it's work, if you do it right. You could be a mum without lifting a finger, but it is hard work physically, emotionally and mentally. Being a sahm is unrelenting in that way. But I wouldn't think it's a job.

I agree with Anyone

pretty much all jobs are choices, though

Not a job.

Hard work at times but not a job.

It is a bit of a job but not an actual job job.

Not a job.

Same as being a wife or a sister isn't a job.

It's a state if being. It isn't a job.

I do both, am I moonlighting?

We all need to work to survive, that's no choice

Having a kid is tho. It's a choice you make

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Of course it's not a job. There are no skills demanded or qualifications required other than reproducing.

Any idiot can become a mother.

Sadly.

It is not a job. You are a mum just like you are a wife or daughter. And just because your children are all grown up and have their families, you are still their mum.

I'm a foster carer, so yes, being a mum is my job. I do get 'paid' about £1 an hour I think, but I get no sick pay, holidays or pension.

It's what I do but I don't feel the need to validate it by calling it a job. Yes it is time consuming, hard work etc but no it isn't a career choice.

I'm baffled by these wohm/sahm threads tbh

Hello Parsnipcake, why did I always get he impression that foster carers got paid hundreds of pounds a week?

If it isn't then I spend my life doing fuck all Well that's actually true at the moment as I'm bed bound after surgery.

I know being a parent is hard work, not matter what your employment statue

Sometimes you hear the word 'job' to mean responsibility. ie: DH to DW ''it's my job to make sure you feel loved'', ''my job to keep you all safe'', etc. In that respect it could be termed a job - My 'job' to raise my kids well.

It would like a student saying that studying is their job. No it isn't it's just what you do. It is what it is.

there is an element of care and responsibility to being a mum that there isn't to being a wife or sister or whatever

Having children is a choice, sure, but so is having a job, you could just rock up to the benefits office or turn to a life of crime

Any old fool could become a mother - MOthering otoh is hard work. But still not a job, though

It wasn't a choice for me. I was financially cornered in to sah.

But I don't judge anybody else's choice. I just wonder if it was a choice at all.