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............If I am undervalued and unrewarded, half nuts and to blame for every ill that can befall a child, I don't want to spend my last 15 minutes of consciousness at the end of what Warner describes as my exhausting and unfulfilling day reading about it. Maybe it is just me, because these books are flying off the shelves and the authors are getting time with Katie Couric and on National Public Radio and are on the cover of Newsweek. My theory is this: The authors of these books are just as bright, angry and tired as the mothers they...

Teresa Heinz Kerry, wife of Senator John Kerry, the Democratic presidential nominee, sparked a genuine controversy this week, describing First Lady Laura Bush as less qualified to be a president's wife because she had never held a "real job" as an adult. The ensuing controversy raised a host of issues, ranging from Teresa Heinz Kerry's worldview to the role of mothers and the value of motherhood. The controversy emerged from a seemingly innocuous set of interviews in USA Today. With Election Day looming near on the horizon, the paper published a series of articles on the role of the first...