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Who's a Bad Mother?(Scope)('Bad Mother' by Ayelet Waldman)(Brief article)(Book review)
Byline: Katie Baker
In her new book, Bad Mother, Ayelet Waldman explores how women face undue pressure to live up to a cultural ideal that's impossible to achieve: that of the Good Mother, a June Cleaver-esque madonna who "remembers to serve fruit at breakfast, is always cheerful and never yells -- is -never too tired for sex," and who abnegates all her own wishes and desires to those of her kids. When women inevitably fall short, they face a blistering court of public opinion, from strangers in the grocery store to other preschool moms and the vicious anonymous ...
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