Word: motherhood
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...hand was sure from the start. With only minor amendment, much of the February 1922 issue's table of contents could pass a Digest reader's muster today: "Keep Well" (an unexceptionable appeal from President Wilson's physician reprinted from Good Housekeeping); "Wanted-Motives for Motherhood," from Outlook...
...traditional job of homemaking takes up a portion but nowhere near the entire span of a woman's life today," she said. "One approach to this problem is to build up the role of the homemaker, to declare that 'Nothing is more important than motherhood...
Hurrah for Mary Bunting! What a joy to find an educated woman who advocates no such radical goals as women in politics or big business careers but motherhood with some objective beyond diapers and rectal thermometers. Where do young mothers with fresh ideas and a desire to do something challenging go to register...
...whole being rebels at women like Mary Bunting. Her notion that women should dedicate themselves to something '"more meaningful" than marriage and motherhood is the symptom of a sick mind. Feminists like Mrs. Bunting are unwilling to face the fact that fundamental biological differences have forever determined the relationship between the sexes-the man as father, provider and protector, and his mate as mother, companion and helpmeet. Fulfilling her role successfully requires the woman's complete dedication to home and husband...
Something Meaningful. "Let the woman learn in silence with all subjection." said St. Paul. From those who agree with him to those who love their wives as they are, men are likely to give Mary Bunting a hot argument. So what's wrong with motherhood? Nothing, says Mary Bunting; nor does she insist on "careers." She simply believes that countless women are dying to do something more meaningful. "They are busy." she says. "They are exhausted. But they are not happy." They are not doing something important enough, hard enough, engrossing enough to make life worthwhile...