The Mommy Wars

As I am still in the middle of my review of Hyper-Parenting (on another blog…please email me if you are interested), I probably won’t get to my review of the Truth Behind the Mommy Wars by Miriam Peskowitz until next week. By then, the Washington Post article “Unleashing the Wrath of Stay-at-Home Moms” may no longer be available.

It is currently available here. I think you need to subscribe with free membership to be able to read it. It’s worth it. I’m angry, very angry. I will be saving the text to pick it apart right after my review of Peskowitz’s book.

Addendum: As The Washington Post is linking to this post, I feel that I must write at least a little of what made me so angry. What has upset me is not that Ms. Hirshman has “come out full blast for women who work” but that she has added fuel to the fire of the “Mommy Wars” without doing anything to help reduce the divisiveness perpetuated by today’s media and without offering some real solutions to to mothers (and fathers) who wish for more varied opportunites to combine paid work and unpaid “care work”. Stating “You make me want to vomit too” is not going to help us get anywhere with this important social issue.