In the programme, she says: "I think the traditional way the family
was run has been going for thousands of years and it works. What I see
now is men disenfranchised from their roles. Women are lost because
they now have to work full-time. They don't have a choice. There is no
proper child care, there's nobody home when the children come home."

In 1971 Pizzey opened a refuge for women suffering from domestic
violence. It soon attracted public funding and became Women's Aid.

A noted contrarian, Pizzey has rarely been predictable in her views
on feminism. She has previously suggested that some women were
attracted to abusive relationships, drawing harsh cri...

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In the programme, she says: "I think the traditional way the family
was run has been going for thousands of years and it works. What I see
now is men disenfranchised from their roles. Women are lost because
they now have to work full-time. They don't have a choice. There is no
proper child care, there's nobody home when the children come home."

In 1971 Pizzey opened a refuge for women suffering from domestic
violence. It soon attracted public funding and became Women's Aid.

A noted contrarian, Pizzey has rarely been predictable in her views
on feminism. She has previously suggested that some women were
attracted to abusive relationships, drawing harsh criticism from other
feminists.

In the documentary she says she now considers the idea of women having it all - a family and a career - to be a myth.

She adds: "I don't think anybody foresaw what that freedom of choice
would do. It's imprisoned many women. They don't have a choice - they
have to work hard and I just see an exhausted generation of women
trying to do it all."

According to ongoing research by Jay Belsky, a professor of psychology at Birbeck College, Pizzey's fears are being borne out.

Research done in America as part of the college's Families, Children
and Child Care study of 1200 children claims to show that the more time
young children spend in care in their early years, the more aggressive
and disobedient they will be by the time they reach primary school.

Belsky said the quality of the care did not change his findings.

"I don't want to catastrophise and make it sound like we're
developing axe murderers: there's no evidence of that. What is
important, though, is that these effects in the American data emerged
even when the quality of care was good."

He added: "I think there is some reason to question full-time childcare beginning very early in life."