When Mothers Work Loving Our Children Without

Drawing on the latest research and discussions with prominent psychologists, Peters explains our deep-seated resistance to mothering (and fathering) in new ways. With portraits of a dozen real familiescorporate and blue collar, religious and secular, step- and single parents, urban and suburbanPeters illustrates the strategies that make this new family life succeed.

Joan K. Peters has written for the New York Times, Ms. Magazine, Family Life, Cosmopolitan, The Nation, and numerous other publications, and is the author of When Mothers Work. She lives in California with her husband and daughter.

Acknowledgments	p. ix
Preface	p. xiii
The Millennial Dilemma: Our Children or Our Lives?	p. 1
The Donna Reed Makeover	p. 12
Sacrificial Motherhood: the Sacred Ideal	p. 35
Real Mothers Are Good Enough	p. 55
The Work-Mother Nexus	p. 72
The Critical Mother, the Absent Father Within	p. 90
The Father Problem	p. 112
Freer Mothers, Stronger Marriages, Happier Children	p. 131
Extending Family	p. 150
When There Is Only One: the Single Mother	p. 167
Solving the Mother Puzzle	p. 184
Mothering, Growth of Self and Soul: a Philosophical Conclusion	p. 204
Afterword	p. 221
Notes	p. 227
Index	p. 241
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When Mothers Work Loving Our Children Without Sacrificing Our Selves

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