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Women's eNews has launched a new column by Allison Stevens, MOMAGENDA. Stevens shows that being a new parent doesn't mean sacrificing your political savvy-ness. In her first column, Exhaustion Is Political Parent's Enemy No. 1 Allison Offers this commentary: I first got the idea for this column months ago--nine, to be exact--after reading a piece in The Nation about why women lose their activist zeal when they become mothers. In her piece, Nona Willis Aronowitz notes that blogs targeting feminists tend to dwell on topics that have special zing with young women, such as reproductive rights, equal pay and body image. But they rarely delve into issues of particular concern to mothers, such as paid leave, affordable child care and work-life balance.
Mommy blogs, meanwhile, tend to be apolitical, Aronowitz notes, concerned mainly with the personal.
In her piece, Aronowitz asks why young women are deaf to issues of concern to mothers and gives a complex set of answers.
I'd like to respond to the flip question of why mothers ignore political issues that affect them. For me, the mother of a toddler and a baby (plus a crazy lab mix), it's a no-brainer: time.
To read more of this article, visit http://www.womensenews.org/momagenda
Tags: Mommy Blog Momagenda Allison Stevens Parenting Column Politics And Par
Womens eNews offers a new article about First Lady Michelle Obama's new plan to fight childhood obesity and the positive impact that can have on the counrty's breastfeeding rates. Read the article here: http://www.womensenews.org/story/reproductive-health/100205/michelle-obama-urged-speak-out-breastf eeding
Tags: Breastfeeding Michelle Obama Government Anti-obesity Initiative
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