Word: motherhood
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...Ding Zilin and her associates considered themselves ordinary mothers. But that was the night the Chinese government ordered its military to fire on civilians in Beijing's Tiananmen Square. Ding's 17-year-old son, Jiang Jielian, was shot and killed while crouching behind a rosebush. After that night, motherhood and massacre became inseparable for Ding and others like her. They banded together and called themselves Tiananmen Mothers...
...choosing not so much to drop out as to stop out, often with every intention of returning. Their mantra: You can have it all, just not all at the same time. Their behavior, contrary to some popular reports, is not a June Cleaver-ish embrace of old-fashioned motherhood but a new, nonlinear approach to building a career and an insistence on restoring some kind of sanity. "What this group is staying home from is the 80-hour-a-week job," says Hochschild. "They are committed to work, but many watched their mothers and fathers be ground up by very...
STAYING HOME More women are ditching the relentless pressures of the 24/7 workplace for the equally pressing demands of full-time motherhood...
...short films that explore the potential impact of future artificial technology on human relationships, Robot Stories earns the Crimson Arts stamp of approval for combining its conversation-sparking material with a remarkably profound understanding of human emotion. Particularly strong is Pak’s sympathy towards the challenges of motherhood, expressed in the film’s most effective segment, “My Robot Baby,” wherein a mother adopts a mechanical baby to prove herself adept at adoption. When the baby starts to break down, the mother faces a frightening and poignant dilemma. Runs through March...
...hard to be against motherhood, but Japan, a country with a falling birthrate, may have found a way. When television variety-show host Aki Mukai and her husband, former professional wrestler Nobuhiko Takada, announced the birth of their twin boys last Tuesday, they drew fresh attention to the country's restrictive law surrounding surrogate mothers. Due to a 41-year-old Supreme Court ruling, Mukai, 39, can't be registered as the twins' biological mother, because the couple used a surrogate to give birth; to be recognized, she must legally adopt the twins...