“ An unemployed father is always considered more detrimental to the family than an unemployed mother, and at the same time, child psychologists kept coming up with new responsibilities for parents that… Élisabeth Badinter
“ The message is clear: a good mother breast feeds. Significantly, this good mother shares a sociocultural profile with women in other developed countries: she is over thirty, is a high earning professi… Élisabeth Badinter
“ The tyranny of maternal duty is not new, but it has become considerably more pronounced with the rise of naturalism, and it has thus far produced neither a matriarchy nor sexual equality, but rather a… Élisabeth Badinter
“ For a majority of women it remains difficult to reconcile increasingly burdensome maternal responsibilities with personal fulfillment. Élisabeth Badinter
“ Motherhood is still the great unknown. For some, it brings incomparable happiness and enriches their identity. Others manage as best they can to reconcile contradictory demands. Élisabeth Badinter
“ Increased responsibility for babies and young children has proved just as restrictive, if not more so, than sexism in the home or in the workplace. Élisabeth Badinter
“ The realities of motherhood are often obscured by a halo of illusions. The future mother tends to fantasize about love and happiness and overlooks the other aspects of child-rearing: the exhaustion, f… Élisabeth Badinter
“ Childless people are always expected to explain themselves, although it would never occur to anyone to ask a woman why she became a mother (and to insist on getting good reasons) Élisabeth Badinter
