I guess I'll let all of you enslaved moms out there handle the critique.
Pile of dung. I read it to our children yesterday so they could practice their fallacy detecting.
This is the “Fear of Flying” author, right? Enough said.
Really. First, I have to say that whoever came up with the term “baby bump” should be caned.
Second, mothers have bonded with their babies for eons because they weren’t raising them alone. They had this really ingenious invention called a husband/father and often an extended family. However Erica Jong is now and always has been an idiot. She is an adult bump.
Young ladies, I offer this article as an example of how bitter life can be when one is old and alone. Marry young, stay faithful, have kids - and be happy. Don’t be a bitter old feminist. Actually, it’s good advice for guys, too.
Like a good liberal, her own advice didn’t stop her from having a child of her own by one of her four husbands.
Ninety years ago, the dominant theme in pop culture was the love between mothers and children. FDR, Churchill, MacArthur among others were shameless mama's boys. It was a point of honor. America prided itself as the first nation where mothers weren't expected to have a job.
Now, face it - the Erica Jongs have won. Even here on FR you'll see people glorifying mothers who leave their infants behind to go off to war!
My favorite thing about Sarah Palin is that she quit her “important” job to be with her family. That is incomprehensible to most Americans today.
There are hopeful signs, particularly the homeschoolers. But here in the 21st Century, we are children of the state.
Stunningly creepy made up word.
Live for your baby- not yourself... frickin libtard. Typical single city creature who is aging and finds no purpose in life because it refused to procreate and find meaning in love rather than the ideology of liberal possession of liberal goods and liberal hierarchical status. She is most likely upset because her uterus is a dried up old husk, barren of any support for life... we see this in so many liberal women... Dowd... Paglia... Hillary.... Barny Frank.
“Bearing and rearing children has come to be seen as life’s greatest good.”
Well I do believe this is right but for the rest of the rant she should be disposed of like the millions of babies her sort of thinking has murdered.
“We need to be released from guilt about our children, not further bound by it”
Liberals hate kids.
Poor thing. Looks like she does not know very much about mothering and marriage. She has been married 4 times. I must be blessed because I had never heard of her until this thread. Have I really missed anything?
There’s simply no connection between the lives of baby-collecting celebrities and those of ordinary people bringing up their own children. And also, the writer is a moonbat.
Well, I agree with the author on this point.
I guess after their careers are over, Angelina Jolie and Madonna will ship their "pets" back to where they came from...
In among the dreck, there’s some common sense. There are a million books offering (contradictory) instructions about what every mother *must* do to have a perfect child, save the planet, and win a blue ribbon. I’m sure it’s very stressful for women who don’t have the gumption to say, “No, of course I won’t, but you have a nice day, anyway.”
There we go, again. >:-(
Families are God's unit intended to raise the kids...screw the commune...er..."village" !
I will never “wear” my children nor will I ever sleep with them past the first couple of weeks. I can’t do it! It’s not for me. There are too many of them and I need my sleep. There were actually a couple of sane thoughts in this article but they were lost amid the “enough abandoned children on the planet to make breeding unnecessary” comments. I am such a breeder!
Hey Erica, I read the book that you’re famous for. It sucked.
You wear your baby, sleep with her and attune yourself totally to her needs.
Didn’t even have to know who wrote this...the above sentence bears the gender bias against boys and men. I have one of each and neither is better than the other nor do I love either one more than the other. Our boy has grown into a loving caring son, brother, husband and father just like his dad and our daughter has married someone just like them. He treats her with love and respect as she does him and our son treats his wife the same way. Love and respect and by the way eryikkah...they are teams and helpe each other. Go away ... you are so yesterday.
Of course, she also had to get her shot in at Sarah Palin. Yawn. So predictable, these feminist commies.
and it works...just look at the effete offspring