In the new book Mommy Wars, women are going head-to-head about the choice before a woman regarding being a stay-at-home or a career mom. SELF Magazine's March 2006 issue offers readers two essays excerpted from the book, which is just enough to whet your appetite for more or make you decide to leave the book where it sits: on the shelf.
I haven't made up my mind yet. I think I'll just wait and see if a copy pops up on the new book rack at my favorite library branch. I really appreciate that SELF qualified their introduction to the essays by describing the book as "about one of the hardest choices a woman can make -- if she's lucky enough to have a choice."
At one time, I had a choice. I no longer do. Maybe that's why I don't want to read this book in full; I, like most people, don't like being reminded of the fact that I am now forced to do something that I used to choose to do. While I enjoyed parts of the two essays selected for publication in SELF, other parts made my blood pressure sky rocket.
Do we, as women, really need to take these snide tones and make guilty asides, or do we need to just go about our business of running our households, raising our kids, assisting our parents, building careers or philanthropic enterprises and supporting each other, no matter what we do?
Well, yes, that's a trick question, because I'm hoping each of you will vote for the latter, of course!
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