How do we value human time?

The artist Alexia Nye Jackson has an art exhibit and non-profit organization committed to the message that mothers' work makes the world go around, in the most true, deep and meaningful ways, called Mother: The Job. She includes on her site a three minute clip of her film, about the value of what a mother does, called All Day. You must watch it and order the full length version too.

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[Cynthia Samuels]

I don't know how you always find these things but I'm grateful. On the same issue in another context, there's a huge argument raging about the latest Linda Hirshman piece in the Washington Post. http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/01/26/AR2007012601626.html (read to the end)

Some posts I've read on the topic claim women don't pay enough attention to politics and issues because they're domesticated into passivity and let their husbands run the show. Imagine!

The bottom line to me is that our culture, as the narrator suggests and Sylvia Hewlett wrote about in her early work, just does NOT value children and child rearing in policy terms. We raise kids IN SPITE of the system, not with its help. Thank goodness for fierce fighters like you who keep reminding us -- and everyone else.