<ul><li><sub><sup>I was touched by your comments. I am a child-free-by-choice woman, Ms. Sotomayer's age. I see you have chosen to celebrate Ms. Sotomayer's possibly strong mother than denigrate (as I have read on other, supposedly "pro-women/pro-mom" sites) Ms. Sotomayor's non-motherhood. Your readers bring out several concerns that I have seen my coworkers, associates, friends and neighbors deal with over the years and that is: Lack of a strong extended FAMILY (and I must stress the word FAMILY here) has been very hard for my generation (boomers) to deal with when raising a family. When there has been a strong extended family network, the moms and kids do much better than when one is moved around the country without any family support and must rely on a community that may not be able to handle or support an influx of working parents with no onsite daycare available, all the parents working all sorts of different hours, no safe places for the kids to go after school, etc. etc. And this occurs most frequently in working class families, divorced/single parent families. Personally, I am thrilled that for whatever reason, Ms. Sotomayor has no children. Maybe those of us in the boomer generation who have been ridiculed as being cold, heartless, selfish bitches can now hold our heads as high as our children-by-choice sisters, whom we've supported all along and will continue to support their children in whatever personal choices they</sup></sub> make. What goes around... </li> </ul>
<ul><li><sub><sup>I was touched by your comments. I am a child-free-by-choice woman, Ms. Sotomayer's age. I see you have chosen to celebrate Ms. Sotomayer's possibly strong mother than denigrate (as I have read on other, supposedly "pro-women/pro-mom" sites) Ms. Sotomayor's non-motherhood. Your readers bring out several concerns that I have seen my coworkers, associates, friends and neighbors deal with over the years and that is: Lack of a strong extended FAMILY (and I must stress the word FAMILY here) has been very hard for my generation (boomers) to deal with when raising a family. When there has been a strong extended family network, the moms and kids do much better than when one is moved around the country without any family support and must rely on a community that may not be able to handle or support an influx of working parents with no onsite daycare available, all the parents working all sorts of different hours, no safe places for the kids to go after school, etc. etc. And this occurs most frequently in working class families, divorced/single parent families. Personally, I am thrilled that for whatever reason, Ms. Sotomayor has no children. Maybe those of us in the boomer generation who have been ridiculed as being cold, heartless, selfish bitches can now hold our heads as high as our children-by-choice sisters, whom we've supported all along and will continue to support their children in whatever personal choices they</sup></sub> make. What goes around... </li> </ul>