Unveiling Motherhood: Jennifer Case Challenges the Politics and Nature Behind Our Most Sacred Bond
Even though it was impossible to actually become that person, we judge mothers for the moments when they can’t meet those ideals. I don’t know why that judgement is so strong right now, and why there are so many strong idealistic icons of mothers across cultures, and yet there are. And that creates an environment where mothers can struggle—I certainly did, trying to understand who I was and what it meant to be a mother, and the ways in which I was not failing my children even if I did fail to meet these very specific cultural ideals and messages that I’d grown up with and were around me.
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