
"Good Riddance to Feminism!"
Article here. Excerpt:
'Modern motherhood is complicated. Naturally we want to be caregivers and nurturers, but, socially, we also want to be professional powerhouses. And, the truth is we can have both — just not at the same time, as dedication to one often results in forgoing pieces of the other. Understandably, this is why working mothers generally experience feelings of guilt and inadequacy.
The damage that 'attachment parenting' is doing to feminism is a good thing. And, for that, we can blame feminism — a movement that, while liberating women to follow their dreams, devalued marriage and the familial and societal benefits of homemaking and encouraged self-indulgence. It appears millennial moms have taken note, choosing to pattern themselves after their grandmothers rather than their baby boomer moms. A 2007 Pew Research survey showed a rising number of new mothers, 48 percent, consider full-time motherhood to be the ideal situation, while only 21 percent of working mothers believe working full time is ideal. One could presume the rise of “attachment parenting” is partially backlash from the children of Steinem-ites left for daycare and afterschool programs.'
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