Word: motherhood
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...Last week's Academy of Country Music Awards on NBC gave Atlanta's WXIA-TV a chance to interview singers Travis Tritt and Doug Stone on the urgent subject of "why country music is so popular." New York's WABC-TV used a Kathie Lee Gifford special on motherhood as the pretext for a feature on her TV partner Regis Philbin's exercise regimen...
...addition, parenting seems to be losing much of its force. Motherhood is no longer the first priority of many women, and increasingly fatherhood is not of paramount importance to men. According to one survey, in 1976 fewer than half as many fathers as in 1957 said that providing for children was one of their life goals...
Hillary Rodham Clinton's now immortal derogation of domesticity resurrected the "mommy track" debate. Could working women be adequate mothers? Was motherhood incompatible with corporate success? Increased attention was paid to the economic, social and intellectual costs of child rearing versus those of working full-time...
...Baird's futile invocation of motherhood as her defense for hiring undocumented workers underscores that motherhood cannot excuse transgressions. We must be careful about the pitfalls involved in idealizing motherhood and elevating it to any kind of special status...
Middle-class, full-time motherhood is too often imbued with martyrdom and angst-ridden soul searching, usually a feverish attempt to justify the retreat to domesticity. This retreat may be facilitated by the fact that women do face particular problems in the corporate world...