The New York Times is running a series of articles in their "Room for Debate" section about motherhood, feminism and attatchment parenting. The articles are written by a wide range of women, from author Erica Jong to actress and attatchment parenting advocate Mayim Bialik. As a feminist and semi-attatchment parent, I'm happy to read these articles.
There are so many ways to parent and so many variables with each child, mother and father. For example, I personally believe in nursing-on-demand and not crying it out, but I also think some aspects of attatchment parenting ("childwearing" has killed my back and co-sleeping results in a grumpy family) are not for me. I'm also a bit sick of categorizing things as "attatchment parenting". How 'bout we call it parenting? Or "what you/I do"?
The articles also discuss feminism's role in motherhood. I firmly believe that feminism does not need to be, should not be, so completely tied to capitalism (financial independence is obviously a major part of feminism, but it is not all of feminism). It's too easy and lazy to say that stay-at-home moms aren't feminists and working moms are. I'm glad to see smart, diverse women starting a dialogue on these issues.
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