I love that Mother's Day has morphed into Let's-Talk-About-How-Screwed-Mothers-Are Day. 

• The Nation reprints a column of Katha Pollitt's from last February. Pollitt writes, "Are you a tiger mother, a soccer mom, a helicopter parent, an attachment mom, a permissive free spirit who just wants your child to be herself? Congratulations. Your kids have a good chance of turning out reasonably well." Parenting styles don't matter. Poverty does. 
• Mother's Little Helper? Stephanie Coontz writes that the 50s housewife wasn't more appreciated than today's SAHMs. Back then, the 50s mom spent 55 hours per week doing house work. 
• Nicholas Kristof says that mothers would be a lot happier if they weren't dieing in childbirth. 350,000 women die in child birth every year, and 215 million women need birth control.
• Nancy Folbre looks at unemployment rates in single moms and gives a shout out to a Elizabeth's study on stimulus money and employment programs.  

Happy Fucking Mothers Day!