Ayelet Waldman: Bad Mother

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Partner:: Sixth and I Historic Synagogue
Location:: Sixth & I Historic Synagogue
Washington, D.C.
Event Date:: 05.12.10
Speaker:: Ayelet Waldman
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Summary: Let's face it, when it comes to motherhood - if you work, you're neglectful; if you stay home, you're smothering; if you discipline, you're buying them a spot on the shrink's couch; if you buy organic, you're spending their college fund.

Is it any wonder so many women refer to themselves at one time or another as a "bad mother"? Ayelet Waldman says it's time for women to get over it and get on with it. Bad Mother: A Chronicle of Maternal Crimes, Minor Calamities and Occasional Moments of Grace, the New York Times bestseller now out in paperback, illuminates the anxieties that riddle motherhood while providing women with the encouragement they need to give themselves a break.

Waldman is also the author of Love and Other Impossible Pursuits, Daughter's Keeper and the Mommy-Track Mysteries, and her now legendary New York Times "Modern Love" piece in which she confessed to loving her husband (Michael Chabon) more than her children.

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Ayelet Waldman

Ayelet Waldman is the author of Bad Mother: A Chronicle of Maternal Crimes, Minor Calamities and Occasional Moments of Grace, a collection of essays. Waldman is also the author of Love and Other Impossible Pursuits, Daughter's Keeper and the Mommy-Track Mysteries. Her essays have appeared in a wide variety of magazines and newspapers.

The film version of Love and Other Impossible Pursuits is now in the post-production, with Don Roos as screenwriter and director, and Natalie Portman in the lead role.

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family: Basic social unit consisting of persons united by ties of marriage (affinity), “blood” (consanguinity), or adoption and usually representing a single household. The essence of the family group is the parent-child relationship, whose outlines vary widely among cultures. One prominent familial form is the nuclear family, consisting of the marital pair living with their offspring in a separate dwelling. While some scholars believe this to be the oldest form, others point to the inconclusive prehistorical record and the widespread existence of other forms such as the polygynous family (a husband, two or more wives, and their offspring) and the extended family (including at least parents, married children, and their offspring). The family as an institution provides for the rearing and socialization of children, the care of the aged, sick, or disabled, the legitimation of procreation, and the regulation of sexual conduct in addition to supplying basic physical, economic, and emotional security for its members. See also adoption; marriage.; family on britannica.com