Being a mother Quote by Sandra Scarr

“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.” quote by Sandra Scarr — Download Open image

“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.”

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