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Friedman suggests mothers should not work, or if they must, should not return to work until their children are at least 1 year old. Critics, and many, many working mothers, quickly pointed out that he offers no statistics for his theory (as in, exactly how many nannies Tiger Woods must have had), nor does his proposal seem particularly practical, since many women have little choice but either to return to work after having children or to not feed said children. Additionally, it rankled many women that Friedman lays the blame for men's fidelity issues on females...
...also doesn't make developmental sense, says Dr. Jean Mercer, professor emerita of Psychology at Richard Stockton College in New Jersey, who specializes in infant development. "Babies don't form attachments solely to their mothers - they become attached also to fathers, grandparents, nannies, child-care providers, older brothers and sisters, or anyone else who interacts with them socially and frequently participates in care routines like feeding and bathing." These relationships are healthy and part of normal development. And becoming attached to a nanny doesn't equal becoming detached from a mother, or that the two are interchangeable. "A nanny...
...mother was one of 11,000 to fall victim to HIV/AIDS in Botswana that year...
...orphanage in Botswana, a 14-year-old girl lost her mother to AIDS last year, quietly resigning herself to what must have been a catastrophic blow in the life of a child...
...didn’t expect her mother to die, but she knew that it was a possibility—it was that HIV/AIDS is a reality,” Diah says. “For them it’s like, we know which family members have HIV/AIDS, and we know people are going to die from this...