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Today, GMA covered the Linda Hirshman American Prospect article we linked to last week, and the stay-at-home vs. working moms discussion. We hesitate to call it a debate, because we all know that’s what the media wants to make this into: the Mommy Wars. That’s what GMA is calling their segment. It's good that they're covering these issues, but they should take a page from Miriam Peskowitz’s book & try to come up with a new way of framing this discussion, in our opinions. According to Peskowitz (and our own observations) lots of women cycle through phases of doing both the working mom thing and the SAHM thing (or working part-time or from home while being a SAHM), so the whole construct of a Mommy War really doesn’t entirely make sense to begin with.

Another segment will air tomorrow, and there is an interesting forum at the ABC website as well.

--Kelly & Melanie