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...other reasons you say you're a bad mother is that you aborted a son who may or may not have had serious health issues. Are you nervous about how that's going to be received? He had a genetic abnormality, and that abnormality could have resulted in mental retardation and it also - the chances were more likely that you wouldn't have necessarily known anything was wrong. I expect that people who are pro-life will respond negatively, and, in fact, I'd sort of be disappointed if they didn't. But when I went through this experience...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Ayelet Waldman: Bad Mother | 5/8/2009 | See Source »

...Another reason you're a bad mother... So many...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Ayelet Waldman: Bad Mother | 5/8/2009 | See Source »

...Then there's the bipolar thing. How does that affect the way you mother? That is my biggest challenge. Because of my bipolar disorder, I tend to these mixed states, which are depressed but loud and agitated. So I can be terribly irritable. I go to cognitive behavioral therapy in order not to yell at my children...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Ayelet Waldman: Bad Mother | 5/8/2009 | See Source »

...your book you attribute your healthy sex life as a mother of four to the fact that your husband helps a lot around the home. Can you elaborate? I think it's astonishing to women how little housework the men who were at the Take Back the Night marches are doing, you know? There they were, in their pro-choice t-shirts, and now they're behaving just like their fathers. Taking care of a home is tedious, wearing, and it never ends, and when you are solely responsible for that, it can piss you off. So any husband...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Ayelet Waldman: Bad Mother | 5/8/2009 | See Source »

Bristol Palin - Sarah Palin's 19-year-old-daughter and unwed mother of 4-month-old Tripp - has been blog-blistered this week for her debut as an Abstinence Ambassador for the Candies Foundation. She made the rounds of the morning shows, appeared at a town hall meeting for National Teen Pregnancy Awareness Day and declared herself committed to discouraging behavior that would leave other girls in the same predicament she finds herself in. "Regardless of what I did personally," she told Chris Cuomo on Good Morning America, "abstinence is the only ... 100% foolproof way you can prevent pregnancy." (Read...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: In Defense of Bristol Palin, Abstinence Spokeswoman | 5/8/2009 | See Source »

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