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(Special Needs) Mommy Wars

Posted on September 02, 2008

Forgive me for writing another post about Governor Sarah Palin and her family. Her selection as Senator John McCain s running mate, and the recent reporting of her 17-year-old daughter, Bristol Palin, being pregnant, have cast her thoroughly into the public eye and, one suspects, in more than unexpected ways. What first piqued my interest about Sarah Palin was that she s the mother of a (very young) special needs child and, too, a working mother.The September 1st New York Times describes the uproar over Palin as Mommy Wars: Special Campaign Edition :With five children, including an in...

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