If I — as a beneficiary of that exact formula — will concede that my own life was indeed enriched by that precise familial structure, will the social conservatives please (for once! ) concede that this arrangement has always put a disproportionately cumbersome burden on women? Such a system demands that mothers become selfless to the point of near invisibility in order to construct these exemplary encironments for their families. And might those same social conservatives — instead of just praising mothers as “sacred” and “noble” — be willing to someday join a larger conversation about how we might work together as a society to construct a world where healthy children can be raised and healthy families can prosper without women have to scrape bare the walls of their own souls to do so? . Elizabeth Gilbert
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