We characterise women as fettishly connected to their babies if they breastfeed openly and for as long as nature intended. We seduce them back to work and the marital bed and proclaim them weak if they put their own needs on hold while attending to those of small children."
(From Deborah Jackson, Baby Wisdom.)
What do you think? Is she right or not?
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"In western society, we use sophisticated mockery to diminish the too-devoted parent.
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