Date: Sat, 20 Dec 1997 16:35:46 -0500 (EST)
From: "Bruce D. Burleson" <anvil-AT-tiac.net>
Subject: Re: M-I: Mothering (Was `What's wrong with this list)




On Sat, 20 Dec 1997 g.egan-AT-gold.ac.uk wrote:

> `Mothering' is a job which has been given to women because it
> is thankless, unpaid, and dirty. Many women want more from
> life than to be reproducing machines. Women have the
> biological task of carrying the unborn infant but this does
> not make them better at all the horrible jobs that are
> required to raise children. `Primary caring' is a much better
> term than `mothering' because anybody can do it and there is
> good reason to believe that it is best done by several persons
> of each gender rather than one woman. That is to say, it
> should be a shared task, because it's so onerous.


I think it was Hillary Clinton who once commented that "it takes 
a village to raise a child."  Probably the only thing she ever
said that I agree with.


Bruce Burleson



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