Word: motherhood
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...this post-women's liberation era - it did happen, although a lot of people seem to have forgotten this - it is hard to believe that an amply educated, allegedly intellectually eager woman like mother Eliza Welsh, the character played by Uma Thurman in Motherhood, would be at all surprised to find herself dissatisfied with frazzled days spent tethered to a stroller. But she genuinely seems to consider herself a pioneer, a truth teller of the not-entirely-pleased stay-at-home...
...have the temerity to stop to admire it ("It's a neighborhood, people, not a theme park," you snap), so surely you've seen the Sunday New York Times? It contains a magazine that frequently and capably chronicles the various dilemmas facing contemporary women, particularly the one involving balancing motherhood with a career. (See TIME's cover story "The State of the American Woman...
...judge's gag order. But Mary Bauer, the SPLC's legal director, says that on a general level, any notion that a mother can lose custody of a child because she doesn't speak a particular language "is a fundamentally outrageous violation of human rights." (Read "When Motherhood Gets You Jail Time...
...everyone agrees that the Mothers Act is destined to help. At the root of the dissent is the issue of screening: Does PPD screening identify cases of real depression or simply contribute to the potentially dangerous medicalization of motherhood...
...mutually exclusive. "The problem with women's reproductive-health issues is that they tend to be ignored or exaggerated," she says. "We need to find a way to come down in the middle: acknowledge women's depression but not assume that all women who struggle with the transition to motherhood are depressed." Ensuring the proper support of mothers, however - whether that means treating depression or caring for women in their new roles - would require an effort much more ambitious than a single...