Many women who used to be full-time mothers are discovering that outside work gives them friends, challenges, variety, money, inde...pendence; it makes them feel better about themselves, and therefore lets them be better parents.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
To get time for civic work, for exercise, for neighborhood projects, reading or meditation, or just plain time to themselves, moth...ers need to hold out against the fairly recent but surprisingly entrenched myth that "good mothers" are constantly with their children. They will have to speak out at last about the demoralizing effect of spending day after day with small children, no matter how much they love them.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Some fear that if parents start listening to their own wants and needs they will neglect their children. It is our belief that chi...ldren are in fact far less likely to be neglected when their parents' needs--for support, for friendship, for decent work, for health care, for learning, for play, for time alone--are being met.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »