Word: motherhood
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Dont get me wrong, I dont have a problem with motherhood as a career. But this articles skewed view of realityfar from liberating women by showing them that being a mother is a legitimate and popular career path for any womanis actually limiting their choices even more...
...part-time later. The article discusses the new realism instilled in young women today who were raised by the first generation of working mothers and who know that you cant do both. So now, more and more women are coming to terms with reality and have decided to choose motherhood as their careers...
...reproductive technology, I was surprised that your story didn't mention having a baby as some women's response to middle age. I'm 49, and my husband and I have a 4-year-old son who fills every day of our "middle age" with joy. Midlife and motherhood are a great combination! Kim Dahl Provo, Utah, U.S. A Mother vs. the President Although I am not related to antiwar protester Cindy Sheehan [Aug. 22], I am ashamed that she shares my family name. Of course, I support her right to voice her opinions, but I seriously question her motives...
...desire for privacy, the peripatetic life of a rock-star wife, her newfound contentment and, most of all, motherhood are all conspiring to keep Paltrow out of movies, or at least the sort of glossy romances she became famous for. She has a couple of tiny roles coming up and another film, Running with Scissors, in the can, and that's it, at least for now. "I could not have fathomed working Apple's first year. I look at certain women, and I think, How do they just go and do films back to back to back...
There is for many young girls another, less tangible factor in the sequence of events leading to parenthood: a sense of fatalism, passivity and, in some cases, even a certain pleasure at the prospect of motherhood. Such attitudes are especially prevalent among the poor. Take Zuleyma, 16, of Los Angeles, who gave birth last May: "I thought I might want to have a baby," she says. "I was thinking more in the future, but things happen." Or Derdra Jones of Chicago, who gave birth at 15: "Part of me wanted to get pregnant," she confesses. "I liked...