The president of Smith College had this to say in the Boston Globe about motherhood on Mothers Day:
Motherhood is a cultural invention. It reflects a belief adopted by society that is passed down from one generation to the next. In US culture, we hold to the idea that young children are better off when cared for exclusively by their mothers. Mothers are bombarded by this message in the media, especially in programming directed to them.
What an idiot! Where are the successful societies in which young children are not cared for by their mothers? They don't exist. And where are the successful societies in which mothers do only a small part of the childcare for young children? Again, they don't exist. Oh, the article from which I take the quote points out that in certain primitive agrarian societies shared child-rearing was the practice, but we don't live in a primitive agrarian society (not even in Northampton, Massachusetts).
Motherhood is a cultural invention. It reflects a belief adopted by society that is passed down from one generation to the next. In US culture, we hold to the idea that young children are better off when cared for exclusively by their mothers. Mothers are bombarded by this message in the media, especially in programming directed to them.
What an idiot! Where are the successful societies in which young children are not cared for by their mothers? They don't exist. And where are the successful societies in which mothers do only a small part of the childcare for young children? Again, they don't exist. Oh, the article from which I take the quote points out that in certain primitive agrarian societies shared child-rearing was the practice, but we don't live in a primitive agrarian society (not even in Northampton, Massachusetts).
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