Word: motherhood
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When in vitro fertilization, sperm banks and surrogate motherhood first arrived on the scene, they all raised ethical questions. And while not everyone is satisfied with the answers, these methods for combatting infertility are being used widely today. Cloning is destined to become just another reproductive technique. Parents of clones will learn the same timeless lesson other parents have learned: each child is an individual. LYNNE LYBERGER Livermore, Calif...
...actual labor. Ruth Callahan of New York City owns Doula Care, a service that provides postpartum home services, including help with breast-feeding, new-baby and new-mother care. The doulas might even run errands or baby-sit siblings. "I was much more interested in the transition into motherhood--teaching them about breast-feeding and helping them gather their confidence," says Callahan. Doulas tend to specialize in either labor or postpartum work but rarely do both...
...torrent of "family-friendly" political rhetoric and vented her feelings by writing The Baby Boon, last year's scathing indictment of policies that "cheat the childless." Now comes a rebuttal. Following the birth of her only child, former New York Times economic reporter Ann Crittenden became angry that motherhood had damaged her financial well-being and caused her to "shed status like the skin off a snake." Under the title The Price of Motherhood, published last month, she vented her feelings in a scathing indictment of policies that cheat mothers...
...last two decades have hardly been rosy. She was evicted from her apartment earlier this year. Her house burned down nine years ago. She divorced her husband several years after she arrived. She dreamed of getting a Ph.D. but because of the constraints of jobs and single motherhood, she has not been able to complete...
...made up for by a series of scenes showing the four starring women sitting around the kitchen table, nursing their neuroses and trying to set their family right. During this time, Mary Ann outs Elizabeth as a lesbian, Nora tries to reform Mary Ann with elaborate guilt trips about motherhood and Elizabeth frantically searches for any household product that can give her a quick high. The current of hostility running between the three sisters is sharp and well done. Less convincing are the few sentimental moments, as the chemistry between Gail (Alex Cooley '02) and Elizabeth (Jessica Shapiro '01) seems...