71% of mothers with children under the age of 18 were were in the labor force. women still spend considerably more time caring for children than their partners do. there are only so many hours in a week and work and motherhood each make their claims on them. when did our expectations become unreasonable. a buzzy cover story in time magazine this week crystallizes the question. a cover which features a mom breastfeeding her 3-year-old son asks, are you mom enough. and a controversial book by a french author called the conflict how motherhood undermines the status of women. her book has stoked fierce debate over whether our cultural expectations of motherhood conflict with the social and political gains won by second wave feminism. this is a central question right now. socially. i should note this conversation