Soap to Ploughshares
How to return Mother's Day to its original meaning.
Also in Slate: Why young women treat their mothers like friends. Giving birth 10,000 miles from home. And families affected by corrupt international adoption groups.
Now here's a message the founding mothers of the holiday would have understood: just a simple request to sign a declaration demanding the destruction of nuclear weapons so that we leave a safer planet for our children. How delightfully quaint.
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Ruth Rosen, former columnist for the Los Angeles Times and the San Francisco Chronicle, is professor emerita of history and currently teaches at University of California-Berkeley. She is the author of The World Split Open: How the Modern Women's Movement Changed America.