Motherhood is "the Most Rewarding Experience of My Life" says Feminist Icon's Daughter

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By Hilary White July 30, 2008 (LifeSiteNews.com) - It was the love of her little son and her joy at being a mother that rescued Rebecca Walker from the unhappiness of life as the neglected daughter of a feminist icon. Rebecca is the 38-year-old daughter of American feminist author and activist…

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The foundation of feminist thought is the rejection of family life, and specifically motherhood. Much of feminist ideas, including the insistence that women go into the workforce, was first developed by communist founding father Friedrich Engels, based on the ideas of his communist collaborator, Karl Marx.

Engels wrote in his 1884 book “The Origin of the Family, Private Property, and the State,” that human freedom would not be achieved until the traditional Judeo-Christian family was destroyed. This was to be accomplished by separating women from their children and sending them out to work. Engels identified the family as a form of tyranny over women and monogamous marriage as a type of slavery.

From the article. I disagree with this and though I grew up around people quoting Engels, Steinem and Marx, I never got the idea that feminism and Engels’ theory had much to do with each other.
Feminism, once again, simply means believing in wimen. The “waves” through which it changes ripple out from the waves that pass through our circumstances. I can no more imagine living in 1960 than in 1884. When I was a little girl learning about motherhood I learned it by watching single mothers struggle. They hadn’t thrown off the shackles of matrimony. They just hadn’t found anyone to marry who was reasonably trustworthy to live with and leave with babies. It was their excessive trust that gave them all the terrible examples of male behavior they had seen – they were naive and trusted the wrong men. Feminism didn’t do that to them and to us. The newfangled idea that childhood had to be a world apart did, by keeping them from learning anything about human nature. Well, our childhoods made up for that. What our mothers found out after they had kids, we found out as kids.
The idea that children are an unacceptable burden didn’t come from feminists. Many early, middle and late feminists had children and celebrated the fact. The idea that children are an unacceptable burden came from the love of money. Male authors mocked family life first. The current wave of feminists (supporters of females) demands dignity for the family, and everyone in it, not an end to the family. Sherre Hite and Alice Walker are yesterday’s news because they are rebelling against a regime that ended when the postwar trends turned around a long time back. Today’s women might react strongly against the expectations that were pushed on girls in the sixties. But we never encountered such. Instead we react to what happened in the late 70’s, 80’s, 90’s and early 21st Century.