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...
...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...
...Motherhood also prompted a shift in her priorities. "It changes the way you work. I used to just go into a studio and just stay there until the album was done. I could be completely selfish and immerse myself," she says. "[Being a mother] made me stronger as a person. To be a mother you must be strong. Even if you don't feel it, you have to pretend...
...front door, pushing her three-month-old son in his stroller. "I'm really...whatchamacallit," she said. "Tired?" I asked her. "The baby's not...you know." "Sleeping?" I asked. Laura's eyes had that familiar pinwheeling quality I remembered from my own first months of motherhood--that hallucinatory period when a mother's heart is opened wide, even as her eyelids flutter shut. No matter what the poets say about the ethereal joys of parenthood, any exhausted parent knows it is hard to concentrate on anything--sex, eating, finally changing out of your sweatpants--if you've become...