Do all mothers feel it?
This year the Orange Prize for Fiction went to Lionel Shriver's We need to talk about Kevin. It was hailed as an exposition of a 'monster mother'. Rozsika Parker argues that far from being exceptional or exceptionally monstrous, maternal hatred afflicts all mothers at different times to different degrees.
Ayelet Waldman,author of Love and Other Impossible Pursuits and Roszika Parker, psychotherapist and author of Torn In Two join Jenni to discuss why mixed feelings toward your children at some point is inevitable and necessary.
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Torn in Two: The Experience of Maternal Ambivalence by Rozsika Parker, published by Virago -ISBN 1-84408-171-0
Love and Other Impossible Pursuits by Ayelet Waldman, published by Doubleday - ISBN 0-385-60881-0
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