Word: motherhood
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...women that age and younger with graduate and professional degrees, the figure is 47%. This group certainly includes women for whom having children was never a priority: for them, the opening of the work force offered many new opportunities, including the chance to define success in realms other than motherhood. But Hewlett argues that many other women did not actually choose to be childless. When she asked women to recall their intentions at the time they were finishing college, Hewlett found that only 14% said that they definitely did not want to have children...
...things Swift did in her short tenure I applaud. But being a worried parent doesn't exempt you from the law. If you don't own up to the personal use of a state plane and pay for it, you come across like Evita, as if motherhood entitles you to skirt the rules. This lapse might not have caused such a flap if it had not played into an image already gelling that Swift thought she deserved special treatment. She'd been defiant when accused of using State House employees to babysit, and didn't apologize until reprimanded...
...choice, the right to have a baby is implicitly absolute. Saul Bellow's virility is celebrated when he becomes a father at 84, as is Larry King's when he has a baby at 65, months after angioplasty. Does a shortened life expectancy make a woman more unfit for motherhood...
...Bible about a mother's obligation to raise her children or face the consequences, and about the death penalty being the only way to get rid of demons inside. She came to believe that she had failed so badly to measure up to her own extreme ideals of motherhood (she thought the kids should say their ABCs by age 2) that, as she later told the jail psychiatrist, "the kids were destined to perish in the fires of hell...
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