This Mother/columnist could learn a lot from Erma Bombeck.
"It becomes possible for a Shaw to say "that unless Woman repudiates her womanliness, her duty to her husband, to her children, to society, to the law, and to everyone but herself, she cannot emancipate herself". The primary woman, the peasant woman, is mother. The whole vocation towards which she has yearned from childhood is included in that one word. But now emerges the Ibsen woman, the comrade, the heroine of a whole megalopolitan literature from Northern drama to Parisian novel. Instead of children, she has soul-conflicts; marriage is a craft-art for the achievement of "mutual understanding." It is all the same whether the case against children is the American lady's who would not miss a season for anything, or the Parisienne's who fears that her lover would leave her, or an Ibsen heroine's who "belongs to herself" - they all belong to themselves and they are all unfruitful ..." http://www.atimes.com/atimes/Front_Page/GC08Aa02.html
LOL! My mother said, "You can blame me for every problem in your life until you're 25. After that, either get over it, or get a therapist (at your own expense.)"
Some people should be contented and blessed with what they have been given, instead of trying to aspire to something that doesn't exists, Being happy with what you've got seams to be hard work for some people, There to busy spending time wondering what other people think they should be doing,instead of living the best way you can, I blame these so called movie stars, making out they have a hard time. and want it all attitude. and Most of them are stressed and miserable./p>