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Certainly, not everyone is pleased with this new research. Looking to animals to study something as complex as motherhood, critics say, is little more than anthropology by analogy, relying on the worst kind of scientific reductionism to explain the highest kind of human impulses. But anthropologists view matters differently, seeing in animal and human mothers a striking commonness of purpose--and a striking commonness of grace. "All mothers face similar dilemmas," says anthropologist Sarah Blaffer Hrdy of the University of California at Davis, "no matter what their ambitions or circumstances...
...archetypal experience" that transformed her life. With sharpened clarity and a less combative nature ("It's easier to get your boss coffee when you both know you can break his nose"), Vitiello says in the course of her years of boxing she found a successful freelance career, marriage and motherhood--a pretty good return for getting punched repeatedly...
...talking Sylvia Plath stuff, just some emotional hiccups as Stefani confronted motherhood pangs, loneliness (her boyfriend, Bush lead singer Gavin Rossdale, lives in London) and turning 30. When she emerged from the fog, two things were clear. The hyperactive ball of energy that sang Just a Girl was now, she says, "like, a woman." Also, No Doubt needed to grow up. "I think we all knew it," says Dumont. "We got together and decided that rather than repeat Tragic Kingdom, we should have a goal--to improve as songwriters. To stretch...
Necessity may be the mother of invention. But now more than ever, it seems that motherhood is a springboard. In fact, so many mothers are taking the entrepreneurial plunge that they have earned their own label: mompreneurs. "Moms are noticing needs in the marketplace that their parenthood gives them the vision to see," says Ellen Parlapiano, co-author of Mompreneurs: A Mother's Practical Step-by-Step Guide to Work-at-Home Success. "They're filling those niches instead of waiting for someone else...
...month features a demurely posed MADONNA on its cover and an interview with the star to coincide with the release of her new film, The Next Best Thing. In the article, the woman who only eight years ago published the pseudo-scandalous book Sex discusses the mellowing effects of motherhood: "I've been naked in every state and country... I've dated the NBA...I dealt with my sexual rebellion. I worked it out of my system." Which no doubt makes her a more appreciative audience for the magazine's Buyer's Guide to state-of-the-art electric ranges...