All the Rage by Darcy Lockman

Author:Darcy Lockman
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: HarperCollins
Published: 2019-05-06T16:00:00+00:00

Quiz Alert: Are You an Intensive Mother?

Throughout the early years of the twenty-first century, the study of intensive mothering was largely anecdotal, based on interviews. Developmental psychologist Holly Schiffrin and her colleagues at the University of Mary Washington in Virginia wanted to parse the impact of the ideology on large swaths of women. “We were struggling with these issues ourselves. Why is there so much pressure on mothers? We wanted to quantify it,” Schiffrin said. So they developed a fifty-six-question measure they called the Intensive Parenting Attitudes Questionnaire.11

“We talk about parents, but when we say ‘parent,’ people think ‘mother,’” she explained.

Each question addressed one of five dimensions, and I’ll use those dimensions here to give you a bastardized version of the thing. Let’s call it a quiz. On a scale from one to five, where one is “strongly disagree” and five is “strongly agree,” rate the following statements:

Women are uniquely qualified to be primary parents.

There is no more pleasurable job than raising children.

A mother should constantly strive to optimize her child’s brain development.

Motherhood is the most challenging job in the world.

Mothers should tailor their lives to revolve around their children.

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