How Idealizing Motherhood Hurts Mormon Women and Why That's Ok
This post is a response to the article, How Idealizing Motherhood Hurts Mormon Women by Julie Hanks. Reading it probably isn't necessary to get the gist from context although it would certainly help. I know a name a glorious name, greater than any other Listen I'll whisper that name to you, It is the name of MOOTHEERR! I think the LDS church gets mothers exactly right. First off, the article misrepresents what LDS women are taught about motherhood with phrases like "When we talk about motherhood as the defining aspect of a woman, the core of her identity, or the only valuable contribution," I have never heard an LDS speaker much less a church leader say any of these things. In fact, all of the problems she has with things the church says aren't things the church actually says. They're a misinterpretation of them. She says that we overemphasize motherhood and thereby under emphasize fatherhood but I just don't see it. Probably because I go to ...