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The opposite of a 'Tiger Mother': leaving your children behind
Yahoo Shine ^ | 3/4/11 | Lylhah Alphonse

Posted on 03/04/2011 4:09:10 PM PST by DemforBush

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Rahna Reiko Rizzuto says that she never wanted to be a mother.

"I had this idea that motherhood was this really all-encompassing thing,"

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...when her children came to visit, she had an epiphany: She didn't want to be a full-time mother anymore. When she returned to New York, she ended her 20-year marriage and chose not to be her kids' custodial parent.

(Excerpt) Read more at shine.yahoo.com ...


TOPICS: Culture/Society; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: children; chinesemothers; divorce; neglect; tigermother
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To: Think free or die

Great post!


41 posted on 03/05/2011 5:09:24 AM PST by jnygrl (A big mouth coupled with a small mind is a dangerous combination)
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To: DemforBush
Effin nOObs...

;^)

42 posted on 03/05/2011 6:09:38 AM PST by Cyber Liberty (You CAN get blood from a stone, if you throw it hard enough.)
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To: DemforBush
I have an ex sister in law who walked away from her girls when they were 8 and 11. The girls are OK, good citizens, good mothers, their dad did a great job. I don't know how the ex sil feels about it, she developed early onset Alzheimer's in her early 50’s and at 65 she is a drooling vegetable.
43 posted on 03/05/2011 6:21:35 AM PST by Ditter
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To: vpintheak
This is societry today. We are the “me” generations. It’s all about us and our feelings.

Speaking personally, it is all about me; I'm selfish and I admit it...which is why I've chosen not to ever have children.

44 posted on 03/05/2011 7:15:19 AM PST by Abin Sur
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To: sionnsar

It is not possible for leftists to care about their own children. They care about themselves, their image, and their legacy. Children are a means for leftists to increase their longevity, a form of immortality. This is sort of like how monarchs regard family bloodlines. The children are property to them and have completely relative value.

If they genuinely care about their own kids then they qualify as confused moderates, not leftists.


45 posted on 03/05/2011 8:05:26 AM PST by Soothesayer (smallpox is not a person)
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To: wiseone
she is “Now a spiritual adviser” BS.

Take a peek at her loony, new age spirituality website. It's a hoot!

Polaris Rising

46 posted on 03/05/2011 8:28:17 AM PST by Gena Bukin
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To: DemforBush
But this woman's actions just seem utterly bizarre to me.

The women profiled all claim that their kids are doing fine. Sure, they might be doing "better" now that the mother who would abandon them finally has, but it's a stretch to say they're doing fine. I can't imagine the pain my sons would feel if their mother just up and took off one day. I can't imagine any child who is abandoned by the woman who carried them in her womb would be able to grow up without some emotional damage that they'll carry with them for the rest of their lives, --damage that will affect their future relationships with their own children.

It's just absolutely selfish. There's no other word to describe it. This woman emotionally crippled her children so that she could give the world another book on Hiroshima.

47 posted on 03/05/2011 8:35:51 AM PST by Gena Bukin
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To: Abin Sur

Then a wise decision you have made.


48 posted on 03/05/2011 3:21:37 PM PST by vpintheak (Democrats: Robbing humans of their dignity 1 law at a time)
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