Lauren Goodger recently sparked backlash with a tweet about working parents who put their children in the care of nannies
Responding to a story about a child being allegedly mistreated by their nanny, the former TOWIE star tweeted, "This lady needs more than a sentence I feel so uncomfortable watching that I could cry..."
"This is why parents should NOT go to work and leave with [sic] a Nanny! I don’t care what people say."
A number of nannies and working parents took offence to her comments.
This lady needs more than a sentence I feel so uncomfortable watching that I could cry .. put me in a room with this women she needs this treatment done to her I feel f**king ragging ! This is why parents should NOT go to work and leave with a Nanny ! I don’t care what people say https://t.co/KQemvuBXbD
— Lauren Goodger (@LaurenGoodger) 18 February 2018
"As a nanny myself, that statement is so degrading. 99.9 percent of people who work with children do it for the love of the job and the satisfaction of watching these kids grow up healthy and happy. Don't paint a large group of people with one brush," one childcare worker tweeted back to the 31-year-old.
A working parent responded to Lauren with, "I would love to not go to work and spend every minute with my children. I don’t choose to go to work, I work to provide for them. No parent would expect this to happen when you put trust and a lot of money into childcare."
"I’m sure lots of parents would love to stay at home but this is just not financially possible! For someone who gets so upset with body-shamers maybe you should think twice before you make comments about what parents need to do to feed their children," another wrote.
Some agreed with Lauren's message, though.
"Yes, there’s no way I would leave my baby or even older children with a nanny... you can’t trust anyone these days," one person tweeted.
"I have four children who I stayed at home to bring up," a parent wrote, "I would never leave them with a nanny ever, definitely not in this day."
While Lauren herself is not a parent, she has expressed that she would like to become a mum very soon.
"I've wanted a baby for so long and 2018 is the year it's finally happening," the Celebrity Big Brother contestant told Closer, "Ideally, I would like to be in a relationship, even though I feel like I'm a strong, independent woman who could go it alone.
"But being a single mum is really tough."
What do you think of Lauren's tweet, mums?
