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Article: A People's History, One Child's Future; As a politically aware black woman, the author came to believe the struggle, however necessary, could mean death. She chose to have a child in the face of that knowledge.
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- The Washington Post
- Article date:
- February 15, 1987
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I WAS 20 YEARS OLD WHEN MY DAUGHter was born in 1972. Like
mothers of any age, I was ill-prepared for the responsibilities of
parenthood. I wanted to have a baby, but had no idea what that
entailed. The absoluteness of motherhood. The knowledge that for
the rest of my life I will be inextricably linked to another person.
That I will hear her footsteps when she is hundreds of miles away in
summer camp, walk more carefully in the world because I know she
needs me, think of someone before myself. At the time she was born,
I was caught up in the style of life more than in its substance. I
enjoyed being pregnant the way I enjoyed having an Afro. I gloried
in natural childbirth as I gloried in ...
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