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7/11/2018 0 Comments

The Human Cost of Sweden’s Welfare State

By Erica Komisar,  July 11, 2018 in the Wall Street Journal
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American liberals sometimes hold up Sweden as a model of social order, equality of the sexes, and respect for parental responsibilities. Its welfare state offers excellent free or subsidized prenatal care, 480 days of paid leave for both natural and adoptive parents, and additional leave for moms who work in physically strenuous jobs. Swedish parents have the option to reduce their normal hours (and pay) up to 25% until a child turns 8.
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2/27/2018 0 Comments

Video: Working moms are producing mentally ill children, says author

By Erica Komisar in ​NY Post
Working moms are more likely to have children with mental illness, according to psychoanalyst Erica Komisar. “I was actually seeing an epidemic level of mental disorders in very young children,” the author of “Being There” told The Post. Her advice for working moms is to maximize attachment time at home. “Put all of your distractions in a basket: your computers, your iPads, your phones.
Don’t pick them up ‘til your baby goes to sleep,” Komisar warned. In the United States, 27 percent of new moms go back to work after just a few weeks.
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10/27/2017 0 Comments

The Politicization of Motherhood

By James Taranto in Wall Street Journal, October 27, 2017
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Motherhood used to be as American as apple pie. Nowadays it can be as antagonistic as American politics. Ask Erica Komisar.

​Ms. Komisar, 53, is a Jewish psychoanalyst who lives and practices on the Upper West Side of Manhattan. If that biographical thumbnail leads you to stereotype her as a political liberal, you’re right. But she tells me she has become “a bit of a pariah” on the left because of the book she published this year, “Being There: Why Prioritizing Motherhood in the First Three Years Matters.”
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5/14/2017 0 Comments

Just be there: Why moms should stay with children in their early years

By Erica Komisar, ​New York Daily News
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I am a mother and I work, but I am a mother first to my three teenagers.
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As a psychoanalyst and parent-guidance expert, I have seen society increasingly devalue mothering while idealizing work. At the same time, I have seen an epidemic of troubled children who are being diagnosed and medicated earlier and earlier with ADHD, early aggression and other behavioral and social disorders.
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