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Regretting Motherhood: Not Every Woman Wants Rugrats
"Women who regret having children are the silent minority," writes Lucy Beresford in the Times of London. Beresford is a writer and psychotherapist who says that not all women are cut out to be mothers. "Many go ahead with pregnancy," she writes, "hoping that ambivalence will be annihilated during labor by a love-bomb of hormones." Vicki Glembocki may be one of those women. Her book, The Second Nine Months: One Woman Tells the Real Truth About Becoming a Mom. Finally. is excerpted on Salon. "Wasn't that whole maternal-instinct thing supposed to stick around after that first night in the hospital?" she writes. "Wasn't some maternal gene supposed to switch on and keep me all stoned on bliss and beaming at this child like she is pure light? ... I'm terrified, really. Terrified that [my husband] and I have made a horrible, terrible mistake by having this baby." More »
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Shockers: Women Work More Than Men & "Wait" Too Long To Procreate
A new "no shit" study by Cambridge University states that women who work outside the home still do the bulk of the household chores. Men may spend longer at the office, but women work more, if you count domestic chores and paid employment. British men, for example, work an average of 55 hours a week, which includes 3.6 hours of commuting and 8 hours of domestic work like cleaning, cooking and child care. But women in the UK work an average of 68 hours a week; including 40 hours at the office, 3.3 hours commuting and 23 hours of domestic work. And the study finds that even women with part-time jobs put in more hours than men in part-time jobs. Meanwhile, the Guardian reports that results from the same study show that childcare traps women in lower-paying jobs. More »
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Adventures In "Mommy Lit": Is Marta Zinsser The New Bridget Jones?
There's a book roundup in USA Today of "Mommy Lit", a term that refers to fictional tomes with titles like Odd Mom Out and Manless In Montclair. The characters and situations are partly whimsical, partly relatable: "Marta Zinsser is a single mom who does things her own way," readsOdd Mom Out; "Motherhood seems to trigger a biological urge to judge other females" reads The Other Mother. In Manless, the protagonist "launched a public manhunt after one of her two daughters asked for a new dad."
The problem here is the same problem with "chick lit". Just cuz you're chick who likes lit doesn't mean you're gonna like chick lit. And if you've given birth and like to read, does that mean you want to read about fictional moms and their wacky, plucky adventures?
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The Brains Behind TMZ Set Their Sights On Material Moms
Silicon Alley Insider reports that Time Warner's Telepicture Productions — the company behind TMZ, the place for all of your salacious Britney Spears, Dog The Bounty Hunter and random drunk girls on video news — has a new target: Moms. Yes, women who spawn and spend have attracted the attention of the media conglomerate, and the result is the launch of MomLogic, a site for mothers by mothers. Logically! And it's not just a website: It's an ad network. Plus: photos, shopping, games, community. Time Warner's got big hopes for MomLogic: A TV show! And maybe a TV channel! Because, you know, even though NBC has Oxygen and iViilage, and Lifetime Television is launching myLifetime.com — which will have content from Glam, the leading internet destination for women, there just isn't enough stuff out there for moms. And when they're done reading about Britney, they're gonna want to hop over and read about where she got that carseat! More »
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What's The Matter With Wanting To Be A Single Mom?
Louise Sloan, a 41-year-old lesbian with a desire to be a mom, had semen FedExed to her Republican mother's summer house in Kennebunkport, Maine she says in an interview with Salon. The piece focuses on Sloan's book, Knock Yourself Up: A Tell-All Guide to Becoming a Single Mom, which details her journey, as well as the experiences of other mothers (straight and gay) who made the same choice she did. From the sperm delivery ("It comes in a liquid nitrogen tank that kind of looks like a bomb," says Sloan) to the adoption issue ("I really wanted the experience of being pregnant, of having a biological link to my child. It's just the way that I always dreamed of doing it, so that was my choice."), Ms. Sloan is very frank, honest and open about her adventures in insemination. But one of the most interesting issues she talks is the complicated way single mothers are perceived: More »
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Being A Modern Mom Kinda Sucks
According to a new UK study, two-thirds of new mothers say having a baby has destroyed their social life and they resent their partners for continuing to go out, reports Telegraph. And it just gets worse: A quarter of the mothers said that their relationship went downhill after giving birth — 47% reported arguing more. More than half said they felt lonely and isolated. On average, mothers with new babies spend only 90 minutes a day in the company of adults other than their partners. Plus, they felt abandoned by their own families:Less than a third of mothers with a baby get hands-on support from their own mum at least once a week. On the in-laws front, more than a third never help.More »
The mess never ends. Entertainment Tonight reports that police were called to the scene when Britney Spears' bodyguard allegedly "battered" a photographer trying to snap her picture. Britney also alleges that a different photographer hurt the bodyguard and her son in a different incident. Are you taking notes and keeping up? [ET]
