Madonna Doesn't Like Being A Mom

[Fabularosa]

OK, so after this and all her other stupid egotistical comments (while she is supposed to be settling in the new baby) this adoption won't go through ?????????

[Ebvoka]

Source: http://english.ohmynews.com/articlev...at_code=371276

Madonna Values Motherhood
[Eye on the press] British journalists misunderstand queen of pop

Philadelphia Inquirer staff writer Tirdad Derakhshani wants the British press to know that "just" is a very important word.

In an interview with U.S. TV show "Dateline," Madonna admitted that her children complain that she's away from home too much. When the interviewer pointed out that she is rich enough not to work, Madonna replied:

"Just staying home and looking after my children and being a mother and a wife is not what I want. I want more."

It wasn't long before the British press had jumped on the story. On Nov. 3 The Daily Mail, well known for its defense of traditional family values, quoted Madonna in an article headlined "Being a mother and wife isn't what I want." It begins with the words:

"Madonna said yesterday that she does not want to be a wife and a mother."

Derakhshani quips: "Do her older kids, Lourdes, 10, and Rocco, 6, know? It's The Mother Of All Scandals! Well, no. . . Guess the Brit journos didn't register the just, which, changes the meaning or something. It's a righteous word, just. A just word."

Wanting to be more than "just" a wife and mother is very different to not wishing to be married or have children at all!

Madonna expressed a desire that many modern mothers will recognize. They love and cherish their children, but like fathers they also want to have a life and identity outside the home.

It may be that Madonna was wrong to use the word "just" because it downplays the important (but unpaid) work carried out by stay-at-home mothers.

Phrases like "just a housewife," and "just a mom" trip off the tongue very easily in today's materialistic West. Just is not simply a righteous word, but one that is thrown about far too often.

In fact it is a mistake to say that Madonna herself undervalues motherhood. The singer lost her mom to cancer when she was little girl. She told "Dateline:"

"I hope to be the mother that I didn't have, to David [her newly adopted son], and as I have hoped to be the mother to my other children."

[sputnik]

big fucking deal. so she doesn't just want to stay home with the kiddos and play wifey and mummy. good for her that she wants to do something else. and good for her that she has the guts to admit it, even if it's the sort of thing papers love to take out of context and it brings out all the 'but she's apart from her child! the evil witch!'-brigade that think the only good mothers are the ones that have their wee ones welded to their hips 24/7 and ignore any other desires or needs they might have that aren't directly related to their little loved ones.
well if i ever have kids - and i'll only have them if i can afford to hire help - i'm going to be one of these terrible mothers that hires babysitters and works outside the home and sometimes leaves the kids alone with the help so that she can go out and have coffee or get a massage or have some time for herself.

[buttmunch]

Still hating the Vadge.

[sluce]

Sorry but I saw the entire interview, especially this part and never ever did she say she didn't like being a Mom. This is irresponisble and too tabloidish! She was being asked how she manages the tour and family - something working Mom's deal with every day. She said there were times when the kids wanted her attention and she got a massage instead. All Moms should be selfish at some points as long as they don't take it too far.