Word: motherhood
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...MOTHERHOOD is an emotion-charged word and ambivalence about it is like snubbing apple pie. It means something different to everyone, depending on their own experience, and it poses different problems to women considering becoming mothers. Certainly it has posed a problem for the feminist movement: while a sizeable majority of women nowadays seems to agree that there is more to life than taking care of children, it is often hard to find a balance between the demands of a career and the needs of a family. "Househusbands" may be part of the solution, but no one would argue that...
...where do you go, once you have singled out motherhood as an issue? In Of Woman Born: Motherhood as an Experience and Institution. Adrienne Rich takes up this regularly recurring theme of feminist literature. Women's biological attributes, she argues, have forced them to bear the responsibility for continuing the species; but the division of labor in the household between the working father and the nurturing mother has set the foundation for an inflexible social institution, including much more than bearing children. Since the first stirrings of the patriarchal system, she says, women have been valued only by the number...
...ambitions. But children naturally crave emotional support. While no one could argue that mothers must be the only source of that warmth and loving, it is hard to see why mothers and fathers together couldn't find enough altruism between them to satisfy that need. In Rich's view, motherhood means renouncing relationships in which one is able "to act, to live in myself and to love [my children] for their separate selves"--by her definition she denies herself much of the good that is part of the parent-child bond...
Carter is a born cheerleader. He is earnestly excited about lower taxes, full employment, a world full of nations that love us, lower defense budgets, health for all, motherhood (with or without abortion), "peace on earth, good will toward...
...funds may siphon off for conservation projects money that is needed elsewhere have aroused unexpected controversy about the proposal. "It may be too close to call," says Robert Van Ark of the Missouri Public Expenditures Survey. "At first I thought it was a shoo-in-it's like motherhood, being for the ducks. But now I think...