Let mums stay at home

HAS anyone calculated the social benefit when the residential areas of our country were vibrant with women of child-bearing age?

It wasn’t only their children and spouses who benefited; they also gave support to each other through the ups and downs of life. The older folk were looked on as people who mattered to everybody as

much as the children who brought the streets to life.

How much is lost when these are like morgues by day and then peopled by stressed-out mothers fighting the clock to get their duties to their families fitted in with time for sleep before the alarm rouses them for another day? All mothers are working mothers, even if politicians are interested only in the tax-paying ones.

Dr WENDY WRIGHT, Guildford, Surrey.