The teachers presently face many challenges in their profession. Apart from the academic side, they need to visage demands and pressures, emotional, physical, administrative and management duties. Sometimes they are answerable to the parents concerned. The teachers particularly woman are shouldering a dual responsibility of work life and family life showing their successions. A sample drawn from Thoothukudi district, by analyzing the data revealed the teachers are stressed with excessive work load resulting to a poor performance in their job. In order to balance this hypercritical situation, they depend on their family members.