Recent studies that have investigated maternal satisfaction have found this to be a better prediction of mother-child interaction ...than work status alone. More important for the overall quality of interaction with their children than simply whether the mother works or not, these studies suggest, is how satisfied the mother is with her role as worker or homemaker. Satisfied women are consistently more warm, involved, playful, stimulating and effective with their children than unsatisfied women.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
We know that babies develop as well in nonmaternal as in maternal care, as long as the care is of good quality. The issue is not w...ho gives the care but the quality of that care,... The guilt trip is, in my view, a hangover of another era and of unacknowledged tactics to keep women in their proper place--at home full-time.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Of all the stereotypes of parenthood, one of the most destructive is the assumption that all mothers are cut out for Donna Reed ki...nd of maternal love and that fathers are biologically incapable of it.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
But whether a child is male or female, fathers are needed for their "otherness," to put a healthy wedge between mother and child, ...to be a haven from real or imagined maternal injustice or excessive hovering.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Many women are surprised by the intensity of their maternal pull and the conflict it brings to their competing roles. This is the ...precise point at which many women feel the stress of the work/family dilemma most keenly. They realize that they may have a price to pay for wanting to be both professionals and mothers. They feel guilty for not being at work, and angry for being manipulated into feeling this guilt. . . . They don't quite fit at home. They don't quite fit at work.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Sex contains all, bodies, souls, Meanings, proofs, purities, delicacies, results, promulgations,... Songs, commands, health, pride, the maternal mystery, the seminal milk, All hopes, benefactions, bestowals, all the passions, loves, beauties, delights of the earth.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Generally there is no consistent evidence of significant differences in school achievement between children of working and nonwork...ing mothers, but differences that do appear are often related to maternal satisfaction with her chosen role, and the quality of substitute care.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Her personality had an architectonic quality; I think of her when I see some of the great London railway termini, especially St. P...ancras, with its soot and turrets, and she overshadowed her own daughters, whom she did not understand--my mother, who liked things to be nice; my dotty aunt. But my mother had not the strength to put even some physical distance between them, let alone keep the old monster at emotional arm's length.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
This mother needs happy, reputable children, and that one needs unhappy ones: otherwise she cannot show her kindness as a mother.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »