Sphere of influence

[calypsomyst]

Well, I just finished reading my first novel for my Women in Literature class. (For those of you who know me well enough to immediately realize what's wrong with my statement, I am taking the class for anger control/tolerance/therapeutic reasons. And anyway, at least it fills a requirement.)So, in this story, the main character, a wife and mother

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[calypsomyst]

Oooh, I do, I do!

And as to the second question, as long as one parent is a stay-at-home Mom/Dad, I don't care which. If the Father wants to stay home and watch the kids while the mother works, there's no problem with that. My point was really that if we are going to idolize certain women, it should be the strongest, most self-sacrificing, and most admirable among us: good mothers. it's very easy for women to "do what they want", "find themselves" and "be liberated" and whatnot. It's very difficult to raise a good family.

Re: yeah, i read that

[calypsomyst]

Yeah.
"I'll show them just how liberated I am! I'm so liberated I'm going to go kill myself!"