In the Arab world today it seems like every household has a maid who dose the cleaning and the laundry and sometimes even the cooking. But is this a sign of laziness? Or just a sign that incomes are on the rise in the Arab world? Some large families with 3 or more children will experience problems because the mother cannot handle the household especially with old age. In this case maids seem like an indispensable necessity.
But the problem is that the children end up being attached to the maid who is in essence taking over the part of the mother! I’ve personally met families where each kid has his or her own maid, so what does the mother do? Spend her time with friends and shopping? Not saying mothers shouldn’t have lives, but they should put their children first!
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To be honest if you have someone come over and clean you house, that is fair enough. But having someone who does everything for you including raising your kids is just plain lazy and wrong!
By Karim
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where I come from, it is mostly working mothers that have maids, and there only job is cleaning and helping in the kitchen. they usually don't have part in raising the children except for maybe taking them to school.
we never had a maid in my family and we are seven children. But now that everyone has left the house, and have their own homes, my mom got a maid just to keep her company.
So there are many surcumstances to getting a made other than just lazyness.....
The Middle Eastern society is very very spoiled when it comes to this issue. I do not blame working mothers for having a housekeeper but it is the fact that everyone and their mother has one and the women depend on the housekeepers to cook clean and raise the children. I have a child of my own and would never entrust his upbringing to unnskilled labor!
It is pure laziness. So that the women can sit around and gossip, sleep till noon and shop.
I'd like the women of the middle east to spend a day in the shoes of Arab women in the US. You all have it too easy.
It is more of a status symbol than a necessity. Not only most do not need them, but they treat them horridly.
The Phillipines issued a ban on people who seek labor in Jordan due to many cases of severe abuse.
As well as Sri-Lanka considering a ban on ladies traveling to Lebanon to work as maids , and according to the Global Voices Online “Renuka Chowdhury, the Indian minister of women and child development, has called for a ban on women under 30 to work as maids in the Gulf in a bid to curb sex trafficking”
It is a shame and one of the most disheartening is an article I came across entitled "Liban, Pays des Esclaves…" by Dominique Torres. As a Lebanese, I have witnessed a few incidents of abuse that left me disgusted and while many treat their maids well, there are many who abuse them.
These foreign maids or maids in general in the Middle East are physically, mentally and sexually abused by the people that always cry about injustice and being discriminated against.
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