“When a mother quarrels with a daughter, she has a double dose of unhappiness-hers from the conflict, and empathy with her daughter's from the conflict with her. Throughout her life a mother retains this special need to maintain a good relationship with her daughter.” NeedsMotherSpecialConflictEmpathyDaughterUnhappinessQuarrelsDoseMother DaughterMother And DaughterGood RelationshipSpecial NeedsMother And Daughter Relationship Author:Terri E Apter
“But the majority of mothers work - and are responsible for taking care of the kids and home. And more fathers are spending more time doing child care and housework, and still working long hours. That work-life conflict is weighing on everybody.” ChildrenLongStillsHomeCareKidsMotherFatherHoursConflictResponsibleMajoritySpendingMore TimeHouseworkWeighingLong HoursChild CareWorking Long Hours Author:Brigid Schulte
“Mother’s Day really was in its origin an antiwar day, an antiwar statement. Julia Ward Howe was sickened by what had happened during the Civil War, the loss of life, the carnage, and she created Mother’s Day as a call for women all over the world to come together and create ways of protesting war, of making a kind of alternate government that could finally do away with war as an acceptable way of solving conflict.” WorldWayKindWarGovernmentTogetherMotherLossHappenedConflictStatementsCivil WarAntiwarAcceptableMothers DayJuliaCarnageDuring The Civil War Author:Gloria Steinem
“The birth of a child is in many ways the end of a marriage - marriage including a child has to be reinvented, and reinvented at a time when both husband and wife are under unprecedented stress and the wife is exhausted, physically drained, and emotionally in shock. A man's conflict between wanting his child to have a mother and wanting to have the mother to himself is potentially intolerable.” MenWayChildrenEndsMotherWifeBirthHusbandConflictStressIncludingShockExhaustedHusband And WifeUnprecedentedDrainedBirth Of A Child Book:A Woman's Life: The Story of an Ordinary American and Her Extraordinary Generation Source: A Woman's Life: The Story of an Ordinary American and Her Extraordinary Generation
“Current conflicts and guilt about being a woman who is a mother and a person in her own right are a socially defined malaise, notan individual problem.... The conflict is not between being a mother and having a career; it is between nineteenth-century ideas about children and today's ideas about women.” ChildrenPersonsIdeasProblemTodayMotherIndividualWomenWorkCareersCenturyConflictGuiltCurrentsDefinedMen WomenBeing A WomanNineteenth CenturyBeing A MotherMalaise Author:Sandra Scarr