“For a majority of women it remains difficult to reconcile increasingly burdensome maternal responsibilities with personal fulfillment.”
“For a majority of women it remains difficult to reconcile increasingly burdensome maternal responsibilities with personal fulfillment.”
Élisabeth Badinter
“An unemployed father is always considered more detrimental to the family than an unemployed mother, and at the same time, child psychologists kept coming up with new responsibilities for parents that seemed to fall to the mother alone.”
Élisabeth Badinter, The Conflict: How Modern Motherhood Undermines the Status of Women“Mothers with high ideals for child-rearing must pay the price for those ideals.”
Élisabeth Badinter, The Conflict: How Modern Motherhood Undermines the Status of Women“For a majority of women it remains difficult to reconcile increasingly burdensome maternal responsibilities with personal fulfillment.”
Élisabeth Badinter, The Conflict: How Modern Motherhood Undermines the Status of Women“Motherhood is still the great unknown. For some, it brings incomparable happiness and enriches their identity. Others manage as best they can to reconcile contradictory demands.”
Élisabeth Badinter, The Conflict: How Modern Motherhood Undermines the Status of Women“The realities of motherhood are often obscured by a halo of illusions. The future mother tends to fantasize about love and happiness and overlooks the other aspects of child-rearing: the exhaustion, frustration, loneliness, and even depression, with its attendant state of guilt.”
Élisabeth Badinter, The Conflict: How Modern Motherhood Undermines the Status of Women“Childless people are always expected to explain themselves, although it would never occur to anyone to ask a woman why she became a mother (and to insist on getting good reasons)”
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