Happy MOTHERs Day
Amidst all the chaos the world is experiencing right now, I wonder, if it is safe to think that mothers are failing in the job of raising children? Is motherhood in trouble? I read somewhere "that the maternal wish and the activity of mothering are instinctive or biologically predestined is baloney. Try asking most sociologists, psychologists, psycho-analysts, biologists -- many of whom are mothers -- about motherhood being instinctive; it's like asking department store presidents if their Santa Clauses are real". Is Alvin Toffler right in sayin g: ... advances in Science and technology or in reproductive biology alone could within a short time, smash all orthodox ideas about the family and its responsibilities. When babies can be grown in a laboratory jar what happens to the self-image of the female in societies which, since the very beginning of man, have taught her that her primary mission is the propagation of and nurture of the race? Isn't it true th...