Jobs and Babies

Mon, 01 Dec 2003 00:00:00 -0500

It seems that most people who write about the joys and challenges of childrearing today are parents newly facing the daunting prospect of raising Christian children in a largely hostile world. They tell of the dilemmas facing professional couples trying to decide how to meet their responsibilities to job, gender, and progeny. They can only see the road ahead and all its possible complications. I would like to add another perspective—that of a full-time professional woman who has spent over thirty years mothering five children, has used every known form of paid child care except a live-in nanny, was a stay-at-home mother for a short time, and whose children have lived to tell the tale. We still have a daughter in high school, but the other four children are well on their way to maturity, with nine university degrees among them so far. More important, all are intelligent, committed, and enthusiastic Catholics.

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