Tara's review
Perfect Madness: Motherhood in the Age of Anxiety
by Judith Warner
Tara's review
Perfect Madness: Motherhood in the Age of Anxiety by Judith Warner
Tara's review
rating:
The author dislikes attachment parenting, which I practice, because she believes it adds to the anxiety mothers experience; but aside from that I agree with almost everything she has to say about the experience of motherhood; that our choices grow organically from our circumstances; that mothers are responsible for too much and yet have too little authority (sounds like LLL there!); that class and economics put way too much unrealistic pressure on child-rearing; that Americans seem to want the whole parenting enterprise to be as difficult as possible. My daily summaries angered my spouse, who took them personally. So tread carefully.
