PaulBegalaEndtheMommyWars!.PDF

新东方《考研英语历年真题详解及复习指南》同源精读 『有关单身母亲是全职在家还是出去工作，美国两 党人士就此观点进行了激烈的争论。作者认为作 为一位母亲已经很不容易，所以不管是单身还是 结婚，不论是在家全职还是外出工作，母亲们都 应该互相支持。』 Paul Begala: End the Mommy Wars! 结束有关单身母亲的论点之争 May 7th 2012 | from the Newsweek 1 2 It used to be a cliché in politics: “Congress is so gridlocked , it couldn’t pass a resolution honoring Mother’s Day.” But now that hyperbole3 has all but4 come to pass. In this 5 6 7 hyperpartisan political year, even motherhood is ammo for the howitzers . Bay Buchanan has waded into8 the Mommy Wars with characteristic fearlessness, and her take9 might surprise you. From her time as treasurer of the United States under Ronald Reagan to her work advising GOP presidential candidate Mitt Romney 10 , Buchanan’s conservative credentials11 are gold-plated. Yet in her emotionally powerful new book, Bay and Her Boys, Buchanan rejects an ideological approach to the family. “We can talk about the importance of marriage and fathers all we want,” she writes. “But we can’t forget the 18 million kids whose fathers no longer live in their homes.” The statistic should hit you hard: the United States has more children growing up without a father than Germany has children. Buchanan has written an unvarnished, at times heartbreaking, account of a young mother whose husband left her with boys who were 4 and 2—and with a third boy on the way. She doesn’t sugarcoat12 the challenges. Her advice? If you l