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    MilointheMeadow: "Of course, some women can do it - some women can have it all. But they are a tiny, tiny minority." If you consider Scandinavia a tiny majority. more »
    youareasleep: What these people who romantisize the "traditional" roles never address is how absolutely SCREWED you can be if you do the stay-at-home thing for a lo... more »
    Shamrockette: My mom's a single mother and she is always trying to push law school or grad school on me. She says that if I go, I'll get a job. Yeah, okay Mom. But ... more »
    HillGirl: Okay, but what about the mothers who have to work? My mom had to take on three jobs while she was raising my sister and me. Otherwise, we would have... more »
    beastybeatsy: Well given that both my parents work, have worked, and have both at one time or the other single handedly supported the family. I call bollocks. Also ... more »
    ellaesther: India Knight: Tell it to the women who work outside the home so that their children can eat. Mother$#%@*!!fucker! I hate stupid, blinkered, unthinking... more »
    Wit is periodically disensouled: I make it a point to frequently thank my mother for working her ass off when my siblings and I were children and for continuing to do so to this day. ... more »
    leesie: What a load of BS! So. Sick. Of. This. Discussion. And by the way, I resent the implication that only work outside the home is "work." I am a stay-at-... more »
    Flackette Goes Retro: But you guys, if it's something the baby boomers remember as an ideal of their childhood, it MUST have universal truth, right? more »
    EkaterinaBallerina: This is total bullshit. My mother's told me since I was old enough to understand to find my way in the world on my own terms doing what I want and lov... more »
    greengrey: Wow. This sounds exactly like my mom. She's claims that she doesn't regret working. But it seems like she does because all she'll drill into my head i... more »
    save jinger: Why can't people just choose what makes them happy? No one can "have it all." Instead of "it all," let's strive toward contentment. If this involve... more »
    fireflyinjuly: Ugh - this is an issue that only the well-to-do get to contend with. The majority of the world's women HAVE TO WORK both in the home and in the workpl... more »
    wordinedgewise: Let's just save everyone the trouble of reading any of these types of "woe is (type of woman here)" articles ever again: No matter what lifestyle you ... more »
    Flackette Goes Retro: Who started the rumor that "working mothers" are a new thing? My grandmother had her first child in 1951, and worked all through having 3 kids over th... more »
  • #mommywars

    British Documentary Says Working Moms "Don't Understand What They've Lost"

    An article in the Times of London takes as its questionable premise the idea that working mothers' lives suck so much that they all want their daughters to marry rich men. More »
  • #havingitall

    70s Feminist: "The Most Liberated Woman Is The Singleton"