There's No Right Way To Be A Mom

There was a time, not so many years ago, when women mulling their hopes for a career and a family faced a stark choice. The rule was select one or the other but don't try to have both and certainly not at the same time. Those who chose career over motherhood were considered weird for not following the cookie- cutter precedent that their mothers and mother's mothers had established.

That rule is now as antiquated as typewriters and rotary telephones.

Today's women now face many options when deciding whether and how they want to be mothers. But the price of this increased freedom for women, in fact, is a dizzying array of decisions: Is it kids this year or next year or never? Should career come before kids in the timeline? Or kids before career? If a woman is single, should she try to conceive through artificial insemination? Does she want to be a single parent? Should she rush back to work because face time is crucial to becoming a vice president or partner, or drop out for a few months or years while her kids are young? Or should she ask her husband to quit his job and be Mr. Mom while she competes on the fast track?

via There's No Right Way To Be A Mom - Forbes.com.