Stay at Home Mothers

Mother's Day Is Over, and Many Moms Still Struggling

Margie Omero | Posted 05.21.2012

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New Gallup polling suggests the joys of motherhood can bring added challenges. The most striking finding is how much stay-at-home moms in particular suffer.

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Can Being A Parent Make You Happier?

Todd Kashdan | Posted 05.17.2012

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Raven (5 years old): Dad, we love you, even if you yell at us. Even if you rip out our eyeballs, we still love you. Chloe (5 years old): Are you going to die soon?

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Dads, They're Just Like Us

Cara McDonough | Posted 05.17.2012

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There's no point in denying the obvious and perhaps even sexist -- in a modern-day definition of the word -- point I'm making: I'm surprised when I see a man excelling at parenting tasks.

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The Politics of Motherhood

Ann O'Leary | Posted 05.16.2012

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Working mothers, or at least those with limited education and lower-end jobs, have almost no employee benefits that allow time away from work when their children are sick or even when they give birth.

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Burying a Life in My Mother's Obit

Michael L. Millenson | Posted 05.15.2012

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My bruised feelings notwithstanding, I suppose the Post reporter did us a favor. In just a few sentences she summed up my mother's life in a way that made the paper. And yet burying my mother's real identity for the sake of a few inches of type, continued to gnaw at me.

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The Tyranny of Modern Motherhood?

Elisabeth Badinter | Posted 04.24.2012

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With all of its demands, the naturalist ideal of the 21st century means that it takes a woman as much time and energy to raise two children as our grandmothers spent raising four.

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Stay-At-Home Dads Face More Bias Than Ann Romney

Nathan Greenberg | Posted 04.24.2012

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The Rosen/Romney discussion glossed over the serious social failure of recognizing both genders of stay-at-home parents as valid, important and hard-working.

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How Homemaking Became Hip

The New York Observer | Posted 04.19.2012

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One of my roommates periodically gets a very crafty idea when it comes to the maintenance of our apartment-he'll stay up all night and bleach the coun...

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Read My Pins: The Madeline Albright Collection

Tracy Shaffer | Posted 04.18.2012

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A well-placed brooch became not only Ms. Albright's fashion signature, but a silent signal to her host about what she expected from their meeting. "Read My Pins: The Madeline Albright Collection" is on view at the Denver Art Museum.

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The Mommy Wars Are Wrecking Your Health: Here's What To Do About It

Andrea Bonior | Posted 04.18.2012

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Call it whatever you want: the Mommy wars, Mean Girls growing up, cat (or Tiger!) fighting: American culture seems to delight in watching mothers tear each other down.

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A Mother's Guilt

Erin Smith | Posted 04.18.2012

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It's difficult to strike a balance between being everything our kids need us to be and maintaining our sanity and individuality.

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House Bill On Moms Would Take Romney 'At His Most Recent Word'

HuffingtonPost.com | Ryan Grim | Posted 04.18.2012

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WASHINGTON -- A handful of House Democrats, encouraged by the recent bipartisan agreement that stay-at-home moms should be considered just as hard wor...

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Mitt Romney's Long Involvement In The Politics Of Motherhood

HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 04.17.2012

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WASHINGTON -- If Mitt Romney seemed comfortable turning last week's kerfuffle over stay-at-home mothers into a "Christmas gift" that came early for hi...

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Mommy War Madness

Toni Nagy | Posted 04.17.2012

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You can be the most sacrificing altruistic mother in the world and your child will resent you for making them your world and never teaching them empathy because you always hid your pain.

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Are You My Motherhood?

Annabelle Gurwitch | Posted 04.17.2012

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We Village Parents don't have a book out; we're too harried to write one. We don't have a catch phrase unless you count our endless mutterings of "I'm exhausted."

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Will There Ever be a Truce in the Mommy Wars?

Joan Williams | Posted 04.16.2012

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Women need to stop fighting with each other and band together with like-minded men to break the links between motherhood, belittlement, and economic vulnerability.

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Stop the War on Mothers

Ellen Bravo | Posted 04.16.2012

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I love the image of conservatives hiding behind the flag of motherhood to protect themselves against charges of gender insensitivity. It's like kids who move the couch to cover up a stain and hope no one will notice.

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"Stay-at-Home Mom" Is a Political Misnomer

Kathleen Reardon | Posted 04.16.2012

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What business is it of ours to question why women work for pay and why they might cease to do? We all contribute in different ways. Far more important is what we do as a society to help families.

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Would Hilary Rosen Have Criticized Stay-at-Home Dads as Never Having Worked?

Rabbi Shmuley Boteach | Posted 04.13.2012

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If Rosen is going to rail against a war against women, then let's agree that a gender bias that praises men who put their kids first but punishes women for the same is an unfair assault in that battle.

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Why Are We Still Having The Stay-At-Home-Mom Debate?

Ann Brenoff | Posted 04.12.2012

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Wow, talk about a conversational flashback. Thanks to Democratic strategist Hilary Rosen saying how Ann Romney -- stay-at-home Mom to five boys -- "actually never worked a day in her life," that old can of worms about SAHMs has again been reopened.

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New Study Links Traditional Marriage to War on Women

Jason Stanford | Posted 04.03.2012

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A recent study found that men in traditional marriages with stay-at-home wives had negative attitudes about working women

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Lee Woodruff's Advice To Her Daughters: Keep An Oar In The Water

Lee Woodruff | Posted 05.28.2012

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Young women today tell me they will not delay childbearing. They have seen too many women wake up at 40 wearing the "I forgot to have kids" sandwich board. And I hold my tongue. There is no cookie-cutter approach to any of this, no one-size-fits-all.

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The Conversation ‘The Good Wife’ Wants Women To Have

| Posted 03.13.2012

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By:Torie Bosch (Click here for the original article) This post contains spoilers for the Sunday, March 11, episode of The Good Wife. Now in ...

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What More And More Educated Women Are Doing

Posted 03.09.2012

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Tiziana Barghini | Reuters (Reuters) - Susanna Mancini cherishes a photo of herself at 27: a smiling face behind a pair of dark sunglasses. O...

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Are Working Moms Really Happier?

The Huffington Post | Katherine Bindley | Posted 12.18.2011

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To work or not to work after having children: it's a subject that's been debated over and over again. What's best for the kids? What’s best for wome...

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