Self-Made Mom is urging readers to head over to MomsRising and sign the petition to 'end the mommy wars.' The petition is directed at CBS, NBC, ABC and other media outlets, and urges them to shift coverage from headline-grabbing mythic mommy war struggles to the real problems facing families today.
This petition is part of a larger effort coordinated by M.O.T.H.E.R.S. (Mothers Ought to Have Equal Rights) to present this signed petition at a Mother's Day "Mommy Wars Ceasefire" to be held on Mother's Day 2007. Mothers Day was originally conceptualized as a day for families to work together to better their communities. MOTHERS and MomsRising want to return to the original intention of the 2nd Sunday in June by calling a ceasefire in the Mommy Wars.Self-Made Mom is urging readers to head over to MomsRising and sign the petition
to 'end the mommy wars.' The petition is directed at CBS, NBC, ABC and
other media outlets, and urges them to shift coverage from
headline-grabbing mythic mommy war struggles to the real problems facing families today.
But I'm in favor of the mommy wars. The language of
war may be divisive and encourage divisions and fake mommy factions,
but it simultaneously brings the discussion to some dinner tables that
might not otherwise talk of these things at all.
This country is hemorrhaging federal dollars to fund the War on Iraq. If it takes talk of mommy wars to keep issues such as daycare and health insurance coverage on the national agenda, then so be it. In fact, let's stop leaving daddies out of the equation (this petition is very momcentric, after all). Bring on the daddy wars!
