“A concern with parenting...must direct attention beyond behavior. This is because parenting is not simply a set of behaviors, but participation in an interpersonal, diffuse, affective relationship. Parenting is an eminently psychological role in a way that many other roles and activities are not.” WayAttentionRolesActivityBehaviorConcernDirectPsychologicalParticipationInterpersonal Author:Nancy Chodorow
“Maturity is not equated with independence though it includes a certain capacity for independence...The independence of the mature person is simply that he does not collapse when he has to stand alone. It is not an independence of needs for other persons with whom to have relationship: that would not be desired by the mature.” NeedsPersonsDoeDesireCertainCapacityIndependenceMaturityMatureCollapseStand AloneMature Person Author:Nancy Chodorow
“Parenting, as an unpaid occupation outside the world of public power, entails lower status, less power, and less control of resources than paid work.” WorldInspireResourcesPaidParentingOccupation Book:The Reproduction of Mothering: Psychoanalysis and the Sociology of Gender Source: The Reproduction of Mothering: Psychoanalysis and the Sociology of Gender
“Since our awareness of others is considered our duty, the price we pay when things go wrong is guilt and self-hatred. And things always go wrong. We respond with apologies; we continue to apologize long after the event is forgotten - and even if it had no causal relation to anything we did to begin with.” IfsLongSelfPayAwarenessEventsDutyHatredRelationGuiltForgottenApologyApologizingCasualSelf HatredWhen Things Go WrongAwareness Of Others Author:Nancy Chodorow
“The mother is the early care giver and primary source of identification for all children.... A daughter continues to identify with the mother” ChildrenCareMotherSourceDaughterPrimariesGiverIdentificationMother And DaughterPrimary Source Author:Nancy Chodorow
