The Vocation of Motherhood

Not sure I agree with everything in this article--the author seems to be making a lot of assumptions, or, at least, not backing them up with anything--but it's food for thought.

"American children are not starving for food, but they are starving for a more generous portion of their mothers' presence in their lives. Instead of accepting personal sacrifice for the sake of their children, as do mothers in India, American mothers spend their energy debating how to have both a career and kids without missing a beat. It is tragic. Caught on this success-based, me-centered merry-go-round, mothers abandon six-week-old infants to virtual strangers at mercenary daycare centers. They put their school-aged children in before- and after-care programs that have the kids eating breakfast, lunch, and dinner at school. Mothers leave kids just approaching their teens to be unsupervised latchkey kids."