Word: motherhood
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When it was time to raise her three children, my mother—a Harvard graduate, an attorney, and a self-proclaimed feminist—decided to quit working to commit herself full-time to motherhood. A few years later, she returned to work part-time, allowing her to keep her foot in the door as a partner in a law firm, lobby for environmental causes, and volunteer at my siblings’ elementary school. Far from abandoning personal happiness for childrearing, she, like many women, found motherhood fulfilling—a choice that too many feminists view...
...mother has often told me, there has been no greater joy in her life than motherhood. As far as she is concerned, the slogging associated with full-time mothering is more satisfying than the slogging associated with having a full-time job. She has given up some professional successes, perhaps, but had she worked full-time when her children were young, she believes, she would have missed...
...most legitimate reason to build a center specifically for women—dubious or not—is to educate students of both genders about issues facing women today. Finding a moderate voice, competing with men in the classroom and in the workforce, reconciling motherhood and careers, and learning to coexist with men, and even women, of different viewpoints—these should form the agenda of the center...
...Never far away, however, is the hotly argued question: should young children be in child care at all? Reviving it in her new book, Motherhood: How Should We Care for Our Children? (Allen & Unwin), Anne Manne presents a body of international research suggesting that too much time in child care, or poor-quality care, can impede kids' social and emotional development, particularly if they attend child care before the age of two. Manne argues that the value of full-time motherhood needs to be reasserted (see box, next page) - and that children's interests are best served when mothers...
...older teachers are too embarrassed, so they tear out the pages about sex from the textbooks," says Hu Peicheng, secretary-general of the China Sexology Association in Beijing. With little knowledge of birth control, an increasing number of unmarried women are getting pregnant in a culture in which single motherhood is still taboo. A survey by Shanghai medical researcher Yan Fengting found that 65% of urban women undergoing abortions in 2004 were single, compared with just 25% in 1999. Rates of sexually transmitted diseases are skyrocketing too, with HIV infections growing most quickly among Chinese 15 to 24 years...