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udith Warner, wife and mother
of two daughters, has no say in
the way her family will celebrate
Mother's Day. The plans are up to the
other family members, husband and
editor Max Berley and daughters Julia,
8, and Emilie, 5.
Warner, a freelance journalist and
author, does have a lot to say about
contemporary motherhood and the
atmosphere caught up in the annual
observance. After liv-
ing in France as a
new mom and
comparing family
life there to family
life in America, she
has written Perfect
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middle-class moms to get their impres-
sions of parenting, and she researched
the 20th-century history of changing
psychologies as they involved parent-
ing. Her work validated her impression
that the quest for perfection in chil-
dren by the mothers who raise them is
creating needless stress and weakening
families.
Raising Awareness
"The book picks up on themes I have
been working on
since the early
`90s," explains
Warner, who has
used babysitters
and an au pair to
continue her
projects as a
work-at-home
Madness: Motherhood
mom. "It seems
in the Age ofAnxiery
that my genera-
(Riverhead Books;
tion of women,
$23.95).
given that we
The issues of great-
were very priv-
est concern to Warner
ileged and
have to do with time
free, have
and money — time
some strange
mothers spend on
things that
managing their chil-
seem to be
dren's activities result-
happening,
ing in the neglect of
including
their own adult interests
how we
and money not being
have shut
spent by government for
ourselves
daycare and other pro-
down and
grams to benefit children
constricted
and families. She compares her
our horizons
quest of freeing mothers to Betty
since the time
Friedan's intent on freeing
we graduated
women through her 1963 tome
from college
The Feminine Mystique.
and went out
"Even though I critique moth-
into the adult
erhood in America, I don't feel
world."
that motherhood itself is a prob-
A magazine
lem," says the 40ish Warner,
writer special-
whose life in France offered her
izing in poli-
affordable daycare and other serv-
tics and
ices that gave her guilt-free time
women's
for herself.
Judi th Warner: A quest for
issues,
"There are people who write
perfe ction equals needless
Warner
has
about the problem of mother-
stress , says the author.
worked on
hood or the issue of motherhood,
the nonfiction texts of You Have the
but I don't think that way about it. I
Power: How to Take Back Our Country
think we have cultural and political
and Restore Democracy to America with
problems that impact mothers in spe-
Howard Dean and Hillary Clinton: The
cific ways."
Warner interviewed about 150 upper Inside Story.