LEICESTER, United Kingdom – More than two-thirds of mothers with school-age children in the Republic of Ireland would prefer to stay at home to look after their children rather than go out to work if they could afford it, according to a new poll.
The survey by Amarach Research was commissioned by The Iona Institute, an Irish organisation that promotes the place of marriage and religion in society, with the nation facing a referendum on 8 March over the so-called “woman in home” clause of the constitution, which says the Irish state will “endeavour to ensure that mothers shall not be obliged by economic necessity to engage in labour to the neglect of their duties in the home".
