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Next month's issue of Glamour magazine has an interview with actress Salma Hayek, mom to 5-month-old daughter Valentina Paloma Pinault. In it, she talks about her work with V-Day, a global movement to stop violence against women and girls. She relates her own second-hand experience with abuse and says she was moved to get involved because she wants women who suffer to know they are not alone and that people do care about them. When she was pregnant with her child, she admits that her own experiences and exposure to the struggles that some women face initially made her hope the child she was carrying was a boy. "Probably because I was afraid. I think women suffer a bit more than boys, and there is always conflict between mothers and daughters."
Now, she says having a daughter with fiance Francois Henri Pinault was the best thing that ever happened to her. "I felt I was born to have this girl."
She has high hopes that her daughter will continue the work in making the world a better place. "I hope Valentina will be much more involved than I have been, and smarter about it than I was, because she will grow up in the middle of our conversation and it will be a part of her everyday life," she says.
I understand Hayek's initial foreboding about having a daughter. Because of my own difficult childhood and my struggles raising a girl, I remember briefly hoping that Christy was carrying a boy when she was pregnant. At the same time, I knew it was girl and was not the least bit surprised - or disappointed - when Ellie arrived. What about you? If you have a daughter, did you worry at all about all the world she was being born into and the struggles unique to women that she would face?
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3-06-2008 @ 4:32PM
Carolyn said...Each gender faces struggles unique to it. I don't think my daughter will have a difficult life by virtue of being female. Salma also talks about the conflict inherent in mother-daughter relationships, but I don't think that is inevitable either. I admit, the hormonal teenage years scare me a bit. But we'll get through them (with the help of a personal masseuse and a solidly stocked wine fridge - for mom, of course).
Carolyn
http://www.momsontheedge.ca
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3-06-2008 @ 6:59PM
ame s said...I had 14 or 15 nephews or so when I got pregnant with my daughter. I remember thinking "I do not want to raise a male." Some of those boys,shudder. One was told by his older brothers how much trouble their parents went through to try to have a girl. That kid tried to burn his house down.
I was thrilled to have a girl and hoped my second would be. If I were to have a third, I would want another girl.
Late-hubby wanted girls, too. He made me laugh so hard by saying before the ultra-sound: "I hope it's a girl. I'll hug little but I may hav to beat little ."
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3-06-2008 @ 7:03PM
ame s said...oops, i used the arrows thingies and they were deleted, lol!
I meant to say I didn't want to raise a male (insert last name here) and hubby meant he would hug a little (my name) but may have to beat little (his name).
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3-06-2008 @ 7:30PM
Maureen said...I didn't care with my first, and was happy to meet my son. Boys are awesome. With my second child, I selfishly wanted a daughter (and had one) because I have a very close relationship with my own mom. I hope that in my later years I'll have a close relationship with my daughter. My brothers are there to help my mom move a couch, but they don't "do" lunch:)
In addition, the daughter-in-law thing can get dramatic, especially when grandchildren enter the picture.
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3-07-2008 @ 1:23AM
SKL said...I definitely went into this considering that I'll have to work with my daughters to develop their strength and spirit to deal with both gender and race discrimination. It takes considerable maturity to become OK with oneself and one's situation while simultaneously not being OK with some of the factors that influence one's situation. That is the challenge women and minorities need to meet in order to be happy. I don't feel that in today's society there is a parallel challenge for white men. If I had a [biological] son, probably the thing that would concern me most would be how to make sure he had the proper respect for women.
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