Posts Tagged ‘babies’
To baby or not to baby
I’ve got reservations about so many things sang Wilco’s Jeff Tweedy*. I’ve always loved the lyric because, being an awkward, feminist-leaning, hard-thinking kind of girl, inconsistency of feeling is frequently familiar to me. Yep, it’s boring a lot of the time. I sense I might enjoy life more if I stopped wondering what it all […]
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“I worried about being a parent long before I became one.” Rebecca Asher’s article (a short excerpt from her book) in the other weekend’s Guardian reads like a chilling, cautionary tale of motherhood. Despite the fact that she loved her son, “the independence, sense of recognition and daily purpose that I’d been used to gave way to gruelling, unacknowledged servitude. […]
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Mail order baby
Jacinta kicked away the Power Ranger toys from under her feet and screwed up her nose at Jeremy’s stinking nappy. The nanny was sick and she was lumbered with the dirty work, when all she really wanted to do was pop out for lunch with Jekka and gossip about Rory Winley Jones’ new mistress. She […]
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The Guardian on gender selection
Fascinating article on gender selection (currently illegal in the UK but legal in some states in America) in the Guardian this weekend. Highlights the issues of humans considering their offspring as gendered beings instead of unique individuals, projecting our own needs onto our children and our desire to control every aspect of our lives (and belief, especially among the rich […]
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