{"id":46,"date":"2007-01-28T17:13:00","date_gmt":"2007-01-28T22:13:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/girlwpen.com\/?p=46"},"modified":"2007-01-28T17:13:00","modified_gmt":"2007-01-28T22:13:00","slug":"only-child-and-feminism-take-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/girlwpen\/2007\/01\/28\/only-child-and-feminism-take-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Only Child and Feminism, Take 2&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/bp2.blogger.com\/_AjTpvPO_ddU\/Rb0XEi8xyqI\/AAAAAAAAADM\/kqIyCPWtXUM\/s1600-h\/images.jpeg\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"float:left;margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer;cursor:hand\" src=\"http:\/\/bp2.blogger.com\/_AjTpvPO_ddU\/Rb0XEi8xyqI\/AAAAAAAAADM\/kqIyCPWtXUM\/s200\/images.jpeg\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><br \/>On Friday, Daphne, contributor Amy Richards, and I were guests on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.xmradio.com\/onxm\/channelbio.xmc?ch=155\">&#8220;The Judith Warner Show&#8221; (XM radio)<\/a>.  I&#8217;m a fan of Judith&#8217;s book, <span style=\"font-style:italic\">Perfect Madness<\/span>, and many of her feminist inklings dovetail with mine.  Things I wished I had said but did not have a chance to on the air:<\/p>\n<p>In the 1970s, the mother who chose to have &#8216;only one&#8217; was sometimes stigmatized for selfishly privileging her desire to have a career over her desire to raise a brood. I wonder how the stigma Boomer women may have felt different from that experienced by today&#8217;s mother-of-one.  *Is* there a strong stigma today, and if so, is it perhaps differently inflected?  Parent friends who ask us about our experience as onlies often seem so anxious &#8211; is this related, I wonder, to the intensive parenting Judith writes about so eloquently in her book? That is, the imperative to do-what&#8217;s-best-for-your-kid at the expense of personal fulfillment, and the return of a new kind of feminine mystique.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;d be curious to hear what others think.<\/p>\n<p>PS.  Check out <a href=\"http:\/\/www.daphneuviller.com\">Daphne&#8217;s new website<\/a>!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On Friday, Daphne, contributor Amy Richards, and I were guests on &#8220;The Judith Warner Show&#8221; (XM radio). I&#8217;m a fan of Judith&#8217;s book, Perfect Madness, and many of her feminist inklings dovetail with mine. Things I wished I had said but did not have a chance to on the air: In the 1970s, the mother [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1901,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[21671,21804],"class_list":["post-46","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-only-children","tag-sisterhood-is"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/girlwpen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/girlwpen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/girlwpen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/girlwpen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1901"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/girlwpen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=46"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/girlwpen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/girlwpen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=46"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/girlwpen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=46"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/girlwpen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=46"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}