Russian psychologists have refuted the opinion that women are becoming stupid on maternity leave
Moscow psychologists have said that women are on maternity leave. do not become stupid, and put more multifaceted personalities. All statements about the decline of intellectual abilities of a woman who cares for a child and stays at home are nothing more than a myth.
This was stated by Marina Ponomareva, a professor at the Moscow Institute of Psychoanalysis.
The birth of a child, she said, is an important event for a woman. She starts getting completely new life experienceespecially if the firstborn was born. In the course of learning a new type of activity it's impossible to get stupid in principle.
As for the typical maternity "symptoms", such as memory impairment, concentration disorder, psychologists associate them with postnatal recovery of the body and woman's fatigue, because caring for a baby requires a lot of strength and energy. Experiences, excitement, lack of night sleep.
The time spent on maternity leave quite often benefits women - they learn something new, find a part-time job on the Internet, read, watch movies and develop their horizons.
About how much you need to sit on the decree, psychologists are silent. But they do not see anything wrong with the woman staying with the child for as long as possible - it will not do any harm to her intellect.