Quotation by Letty Cottin Pogrebin

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Family and Politics (1983)as quoted in Ms. magazine (March 1978)"Down with Sexist Upbringing" The First Ms. Reader, ed. Francine Klagsbrun (1972)"Down with Sexist Upbringing" published in The First Ms. Reader, ed. Francine Klagsbrun (1972)

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The risk for a woman who considers her helpless children her "job" is that the children's growth toward self-sufficiency may be experienced as a refutation of the mother's indispensability, and she may unconsciously sabotage their growth as a result.

Letty Cottin Pogrebin

Letty Cottin Pogrebin (20th century), U.S. editor, writer. Family and Politics, ch. 5 (1983).

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