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[easilyirritable]

Good article about the Yale ladies.

These future moms betray a startling combination of naivete and privilege. To plot this kind of future, a woman has to have access to a pool of wealthy potential husbands, she has to stay married at a time when half of marriages end in divorce, and she has to ignore the history of the women's movement. (Homework

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[anne_jumps]

Steve Gilliard was basically saying this about that article too.

why waste all that education on stepford wives?

[tinaguppie]

That article is hilarious and scary!

[curiositykitten]

If these young women are right that staying home means better children, we have to come up with a way to give more parents - moms and dads - the chance to be at home more frequently during their kids' formative years.

seriously.

i like reading about the whole stay at home/working mom arguement.

[viva_ultra]

And at least one male student at Harvard finds the whole lord-and-master idea "sexy."

This gives me the creeps. Who would want to marry a guy like this?

(Never mind, I just read through the article. lol.)

[ironed_orchid]

On a similar note, The Guardian had a good article on the emergence of "full time mothers" recently: "The mother of all excuses"

"...the "full-time mother" is a construct of the spoiled and idle of only the past three or four decades. Beyond the rapacious demands of infancy, raising children is not a full-time job, and it never has been."