Motherhood On Camera: New Column Introduction

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American culture is mostly oblivious to motherhood, but the vague ideas it manages to occasionally put forth are usually bad. The reasons for this are myriad and could fill a book, a bookshelf, a library: the sort of person who tended to immigrate here (risk-taker, individualist, and in the West, mostly male); how hard we go for capitalism (your worth = your economic input); Hollywood’s late “feminist” bent…