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...biggest, if least predictable, element in the fertility rate is the attitude of the American woman. As the economic, social and political status of women has improved, the desirability and mystique of motherhood has declined. Says Princeton's Charles West-off, a world-renowned demographer: "There is a very pronounced change in the attitude of women toward marriage, childbearing and working, and all these attitudes seem to lead in one direction: they don't want three or four children." As Berkeley Demographer Judith Blake Davis puts it succinctly: "You won't find those sacrificial mothers any more...
...company health plans need not provide benefits for disabilities related to pregnancy marks a serious step backward for women's rights in this country. By deciding (by a six-man majority) that General Electric need not give pregnant employees sick pay, the court lent legitimacy to the idea that motherhood and employment are mutually exclusive...
After months of apple pie, motherhood and the Jimmy and Jerry show, I needed this...
...person," she says, "to draw blueprints for the assimilation of men in large numbers into childcare." We are left with no choice but a separatist future--a vision that precludes children born according to the rather well-established biological pattern, although it does get rid of the motherhood problem...
...Motherhood means renouncing action, life in oneself and love of children for their selves...