外国人最想和你聊的时事话题：当代妈妈的压力

　What is pressure of contemporary mothe　什么是当代妈妈的压力
     Today's parents yearn for the golden age that their own mothers enjoyed in the 1970s and 1980s, researchers found.
     Mothers have less time to them and feel under greater pressure to juggle work and family life than the previous generation.
     As a result, 88 percent said they felt guilty about the lack of time they spent with their children.
     The survey of 1,000 mothers also found that more than a third said they had less time to themselves than their mothers did - just three hours a week or 26 minutes a day. And 64 percent said this was because they felt they "had" to go out to work, while nearly a third (29 percent) said they were under constant pressure to be the "perfect mother", the report found.
     Other findings showed social networking and parenting websites, as well as technology such as Skype, were important in providing help and support among female communities.
     Kate Fox, of the Social Issues Research Centre, which conducted the survey for Procter ＆ Gamble, said: "With increasing pressure on mothers to work a 'double shift'-to be the perfect mother as well as a wage-earner-support networks are more important than ever."
     It comes as a separate report examining childcare in the leading industrialized nations found that working mothers in Britain spend just 81 minutes a day caring for their children as a "primary activity".
     Mothers who stay at home, on the other hand, manage twice as much time-more than two and a half hours-looking after their offspring, according to the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development.
     Critics say the pressure on women to work long hours, and leave their offspring in the hands of nurseries or child minders, is putting the well-being of their children at risk.
     The study also reveals that, despite the fact that more and more modern mothers go out to work, the burden of childcare still falls on them-even if their husband is not in work.
     A father who is not in work tends to spend just 63 minutes a day looking after his child-18 minutes less than a mother who goes out to work.
     Working fathers spare less than three quarters of an hour with their children.
     当代妈妈压力的来源：
     1. 现实与希望的落差让人备感压力。
     2. 努力成为一个"好母亲"的压力。
     3. 追求"非常有成就感"（sense of achievement）的压力。
     4. 日常的作息(work and rest)改变都会引发压力。
     5. 与伴侣关系(companion relationship)的调整带来的压力。
     6. 身兼数职(hold concurrent posts)的压力。
     如何缓解当代妈妈的压力：
     1．定期做全面检查(complete inspection)。
     2．搭配营养合理的膳食。
     3．合理安排生活节奏，劳逸结合(strike a proper balance between work and leisure)。
     4．保持乐观情绪(keep optimistic)，及时宣泄不良情绪。