Comments on: Stop Demonising Mothers

By: Gita Madhu

Gita Madhu — Wed, 04 May 2011 05:25:55 +0000

I came to this page by doing a google search for demonising mothers. I’m no longer a young mom although I’m so thankful for what you’ve written as I do remember those days. While I was not a single mom I was as good as one as my husband had to run around as a freelance journalist to keep us provided.
Even before I became a mom, I was exposed to the strains of demonising mom psychology and my poor late mom ate the bitter fruit of this harvest quite often in her later years.
I am now seeing myself as a demon in my 26 year old son’s eyes quite often and often wonder how much the serials he watches help with this.
And I’m not alone-a good number of my women friends face this.
Strangely I’m unable to find studies on this

By: aka R'acquel

aka R'acquel — Wed, 12 Mar 2008 02:33:05 +0000

My kid had autism at birth (if not in utero already).

Great post & vent.

My favourite parts of this post was,

“What it is is a new parent thing” though in our case, and in the lives of other’s i know – it’s more like 8-11 months on average when kids only just start to *begin* sleeping through.

Loved the “Do The Right Thing” being turned into a bloody trademark. Spot on.

Like, quit demonising and try offering some bloody assistance instead (if you think you can do it better than the so-called “Bad Parent” that is…)?!

By: mark fairlamb

mark fairlamb — Fri, 10 Aug 2007 10:02:58 +0000

we wish we’d had ours earlier – we both had more energy back in the day.
i’ve heard the only link between mmr and autism is that you can only diagnose autism around the time of your child’s development that they get the vaccine – so it’s obviously the vaccine’s fault!
our 2 had / have formula milk and a couple of well-developed little bruisers.
do you not find that a lot of people that give medical advice about bringing up kids don’t have kids of their own?