“My mother never accepted any of the young men, for in her eyes they seemed always a combination of the lazy, the effeminate, the dishonest and the unknown. They never seemed to do any physical work and she could not comprehend their luxurious vacations and she did not know whence they came not who they were.” (8) The mother grew even farther from her daughters, she had finally lost them completely. She had no respect for their curious need to read books and explore. Creating a tension not just between her and her daughter but the family as a
There is no single way to be a mother. Nor will any two parenting styles be exactly the same. The poems “wishes for sons” by Lucille Clifton, “Good Bones,” by Maggie Smith, and “Buen Esqueleto” by Natalie Scenters-Zapico make this fact clear. Clifton’s poem beseeches sons to understand women’s experiences as they relate to bodily functions. Smith’s poem depicts a mother protecting her children from the horrors of the world, and Scenters-Zapico’s speaker, in contrast, does not try to hide the world from her children but shows it to them plainly in order to protect them.
Lucy Westenra presents a rejection to motherhood when she eats the body of a child and throws it away. ‘the new woman represented a threat not only to the social order, but also to the natural order. ’-101 ‘the child that she had clutched strenuously to her breast’ p.188 ‘scientific research defined a woman entirely in terms of body, one which characterised women’s bodies as devoid of passion. Science greatly feared sexual excess, which it felt could lead to men’s debilitation, which in turn could weaken the entire race. Since men’s passion was considered strong and more naturally inclined to excess, the controls were, instead, placed on women.
In a way it is like a cyclic recurrence where she finds that she must transform the image of herself yet again for she is not fulfilled by her own role as a woman. By becoming a biological mother for five children and a mother substitute to numerous others not her own, Marie Lazarre begins to encompass this maternal ideal, a person that has adopted the “mystique of feminine fulfillment [...], the cherished and self-perpetuating core of contemporary American culture. ” We witness Marie’s capacity, resilience, and strength to fulfill the role of Nokomis and the stereotypical woman during the birth of her first born son, Gordie. Marie movingly depicts the pain that she suffered during labor, describing the contractions as if she was allowing her “body to be driven by waves, like a boat to shore, like someone swimming toward a very small light.” And it is after the birth of her son that we observe this connection between her mother in that they “shared the same boat, where [Marie] had labored.”
She does not have children to be happy. She has them so that the “race goes on.” The women continue talking in an ignorant manner when finally Montag snaps. He walks away and when he returns, he has a book in his hand. (STEWE-2): Through Montag’s earpiece, Faber tries to make Montag stop.
“Stop Setting Alarms on My Biological Clock” written by Carrie Friedman is about her experience about other mothers asking Friedman why doesn’t she have any children. Friedman wants mothers to stay out of her business since the decision of having children doesn’t concern them. Friedman isn’t sure if she is even able to produce offspring since she haven’t tried starting a family. Mothers should keep in mind that many women don’t have ability to have children. Friedman then points out that mothers that abandon their own life passions are setting a bad example to other women into not wanting them to become mothers.
Within the novels, Like Water For Chocolate by Laura Esquivel and A Thousand Splendid Suns by Khaled Hosseini the two protagonists face many challenging hardships. In the novel, A Thousand Splendid Suns the main character, Miriam who grew up in a broken and loveless home faces the harrowing experience of losing a mother to suicide at the young age of 15. Soon after, she has married off to Rasheed a widowed shoemaker and a rather conservative man who makes it quite clear on the specific roles a wife has, including being obedient and bearing children. When Miriam is unable to have children after countless miscarriages Rasheed’s true colors are shown.
These people do not control the size of their families, and they just have children even if they don’t plan on having them, and that is why Margaret Sanger want her audience to have knowledge of birth control, so they can control the size of their families, and so they won’t just have children whenever they don’t take care of themselves. Where they might end up giving these children up, or where these children might end up suffering, or where women just end up having abortions, and these are some reasons why Margaret Sanger opened up a clinic to help people to plan
These unmarried women wants to “fulfill their noble tasks of motherhood”(p132). One of the motivation is they feel a sense of loneliness because many of them experience sentiments of insufficiency and uneasiness in a society surrounded by people who are in harmonious conjugal relationships(131). Moreover, even though numbers of “women are unlikely to marry, but “would need a child to take care of them in their old age” (132). A program implemented “encourage women to adopt an intensified focus on their bodies as the locus of their ‘femaleness’”(132).
As one of her eleven siblings in a poor family, Margaret couldn’t help but to feel inferior and long for a rich and comfortable lifestyle. When Sanger’s mother died at the age of forty, Margaret believed that her mother’s premature death was a consequence of excessive childbirth. Along with this mindset, as a young girl, Margaret formed a mindset that poverty, illness, and strife were all fates for large families, whereas small families enjoyed wealth, leisure, and positive parental relationships (Croft). It came to no surprise that Sanger, with such a harsh childhood, grew up to become one of the biggest, if not the biggest, advocates for birth control. Soon after her mother’s death, Margaret decided to become a nurse.
This quotes implies that the child does not choose to be born in an unwanted, unloved, or an uncared for family or home. This is a strong statements to show society that this is why birth control is helpful to the family and the child. With Sanger’s first-hand experience as a midwife, it has really impacted her on the consequences of prenatal malnourishment and/ or neglect (Ward). It is in fact better to prevent lives that would inevitably be unhealthy and/ or unhappy. By using the contraceptives implies a “high sanction for the value of life itself”
Maternity In Love Medicine In the novel “Love Medicine” by Louise Erdrich the mothers seem to defy history and control their families and their lives, the mothers seem to have most influence on the people around them. The mothers in “Love Medicine” are strong tough women, who suffer through seemingly unbearable pain throughout their lives which seems to influence them for the rest of their lives. One of the strongest characters in the novel “Love Medicine” is Marie Lazarre/Kashpaw who comes from a family of thieves, but heads her family with a no nonsense attitude that she has carried with her since early life.
Today, On Wednesday, September 9, 2015, I attended a beginning of the school year healthcare meeting. The annual meeting was conducted by one of the school nurses and it included all of the second grade teachers. Before today’s meeting I had never attended a health care meeting, but I certainly knew of the importance of having a good relationship and communication between school nurses and educators. A teacher’s responsibility includes so many variables including and foremost a student’s care and safety. Additionally, School nurses help educators in ensuring and caring for student’s and their healthcare needs.
Somer questions her definition of motherhood when she is unable to fulfill her expectations of a biological child. After a miscarriage, Somer “felt as if something is missing, something so immense and powerful that it overwhelms everything else” (30). However, upon discussing the alternative of adoption, she believes “there was a reason for all [her] pain” (47) and “perhaps this is what [she] was meant to do” (47). Redefining her identity as a woman allows Somer to realize her choices have a larger effect on her life than her abilities and allows her to understand that a biological connection is not necessary. Her fate causes realization of a greater good in adopting a child.
Charles Darwin, an English naturalist and geologist who was best known for his contributions to science during the mid-1800s, theorized that over time individual species among varying habitats experience a cycle of genetic mutations. These cycles of genetic mutations caused a change and variation within a population of species through “survival of the fittest” - leading to the inevitable struggle to exist. Within the struggle to exist, those that were able to defy their odds and withstand the variable climates outlived those that were unable to and went on to produce more like-minded offspring that were equipped with a successful variation of genes. These like-minded offspring inherited traits that helped them to evolve, survive, reproduce, and supply even more successful traits for future generations to come. Then, as new genetic modifications surfaced over time as a byproduct of an ever-changing environment, they were selectively chosen and either added to or used to replace previous successful variations - this chain of events is known as a “natural selection”.
