Emma Thompson has landed herself in hot water for airing her views on working moms. According to an article in the Daily Mail, the British actress took a year off work to spend time with her children. Great so far, except she then deemed it necessary to add that, “You can’t be a great mum and keep working all the time.”
"Sometimes in life you’ll have some things, at other times you will have other things," said Thompson. "You don’t need it all at once, it’s not good for you. Motherhood is a full-time job."
Few of us would argue with that statement. Yet few of us are in a position as sweet and cush as Thompson's, admittedly.
Worth an estimated £30 million ($54 million), the 55-year-old freely admits that she could only have gone back on set had she delegated "running the home" to others—like her eminently capable actor hubby, Greg Wise.
Needless to say, Thompson can comfortably afford to take 12 months off, whereas many mothers cannot.
Good for Thompson, who chose to stay home with her kids, 14-year-old daughter, Gaia, and 26-year-old adopted son, Tindyebwa Agaba. But shame on her for assuming that doing so somehow makes her a better mother than others.
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