When my first daughter was born in 1980, women had begun to enter the workforce in record numbers, breast-feeding was the preferred feeding option, and the question of whether or not to let your baby cry was in the forefront of a mother’s mind. Times…
So Father’s Day is finally over. I am not sure why it was especially sad for me this year. After all, my father has been dead for forty-four years. Looking at all the Facebook posts of fathers and daughters and families, I couldn’t seem to…
Times have changed quite a bit in the past 50 years. Mothers hold the most important job on the planet, and yet they seem to be desperately struggling with how to “do it all” in a culture that tends to simultaneously idealize and suppress women…