Word: motherhood
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...must realize that progress takes time. Boston College theologian Lisa Sowle Cahill notes that bishops writing in the 1930s made "a great hue and cry against women leaving the home," whereas Pope John Paul favors women's careers and job equality so long as the centrality of family and motherhood is preserved. Cahill thinks the ordination issue is being pressed by "a small and privileged class" in the West, while women worldwide are struggling just to survive and need Catholicism's help...
...surprised to find a rise in the rate ofwomen convicted of murder since World War I. The"rhetoric motherhood"--the idea that women who hadmaternal values had more virtue--had become thelast strong barrier between women and jail,Dickenson says. "Women who could be presented asvictimized mothers tended to be acquitted," shesays...
...fact, few young black females watch Murphy Brown. The show, which in overall audience is the third most popular on network television, ranks 56th in popularity among American blacks. So the idea that Murphy's single motherhood encourages black adolescent girls to follow the same course loses its force...
...politically more precarious than taking a clear stand on a substantive campaign issue. And yet the Vice President dared to argue last week in a San Francisco speech that the Los Angeles riots were caused in part by a "poverty of values" that included the acceptance of unwed motherhood, as celebrated in popular culture by the CBS comedy series Murphy Brown. The title character, a divorced news anchorwoman, got pregnant and chose to have the baby, a boy, who was delivered on last Monday's episode, watched by 38 million Americans. "It doesn't help matters," Quayle complained, when Brown...
...hypocritical for Dan Quayle to denounce single motherhood on one hand and abortion on the other. But he does have a point: having both a mother and a father is not some Republican affectation but an ideal to strive for. Coming into the world with one parent is a handicap, no matter how mature and moneyed the mother may be. Just because fatherhood can be reduced to 20 seconds, or dispensed with altogether by tapping into Nobel-prizewinner sperm banks, does not mean it should be. Imagine if men decided that motherhood was equally expendable. Sated with their corner offices...