"Epidemic of maternal detachment" sounds sensationalist to me. How strange that they didn't take the time to interview mothers who work full time and hear their points of view and experiences. No matter what a mother does, there is always someone pointing one way or another. If a woman decides to work, it means she has "no maternal attachment" and if she decides to stay home raising her children, she is labeled as a kept woman or lazy.

It is true that today's society has allowed women to perform in the work and academic fields (one of the few good things about feminism), a woman is not only a baby-making machine. Now women who want to have children sometimes do not have the fortune of being able to stay at home exclusively raising them. With the economic crisis, women are basically forced to leave home and not be able to perform their maternal role as they wish. Many women who leave their children in daycare or with nannies feel guilty almost daily for not being able to spend more time with them. To further feed the maternal guilt that is already quite large, someone comes along and writes something like this. Being a mother is more exhausting than going to work, that is very true, but a mother will always, always prefer to be with her children, but the current system has that flaw that separates mothers from their children.