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A post from Emma Gilbey Keller, editor of DoubleX's Your Comeback blog:
It strikes me that today’s military moms bear some resemblance to
the medical moms of yesterday. Both doctors and soldiers choose intense
schedules that pit saving lives against time away from the lives of
their children. Both make huge sacrifices but can benefit from a
significant financial payoff. Both continue to struggle for flexibility
and recognition in a traditionally paternalistic system. The battles
fought by mothers who were doctors 10 or 20 years ago sound remarkably
similar to the professional struggles of those who serve in the armed
forces now.
Yet the difference is obvious and stark. If ever there was an
example that choice means giving rather than taking, it can be seen in
the mothers in the military who are prepared to die for their country.
The minutiae of their domestic tribulations pale in comparison to this
greatest what if: What if they don’t come home and their kids are left motherless? ... (Read more in DoubleX.)