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Astronaut Karen Nyberg will be spending 6 months on the International Space Station, and will be participating in a documentary on motherhood. Fascinating, I can't wait to see the documentary.
The issues facing parents in space has strong parallels with military parents.
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Karen L. Nyberg, an American astronaut whose son, Jack, is 3 years old, is taking the next six months to find out. Along with docking space ships and conducting science experiments, Ms. Nyberg, 43, who blasted off in late May, is using her tour at the International Space Station to grapple publicly with the difficulty of separating from a child because of work. She is cooperating with a Scandinavian television documentary on motherhood, has spoken to magazines on parenting and embraced the question her long business trip inevitably poses: how to choose between a dream job that requires long travel and the pull of children at home.
Interesting, but not so far from mothers who serve in the armed forces. As long as the mothers have supportive spouses or families on board for child care, I think it's great.
Children get raised with no mother at times. Some of them turn out ok. A mother you can only see on TV for several months cannot be any worse than no mother. Probably better than a crack addicted selfish mother too. In fact, there may be quite a few mothers the kids would be better off if the mom was sent to outer space for a time (or indefinitely). However in most cases, a kid needs a mother and that means a present mother. It is only six months though. Probably unlikely to do any long term harm.
Of course someone will try to say, "oh it works jut as well as if she was at home." Then they will do a bunch of heavily funded studies to prove it. Then they will say they successfully proved it and point to some carefully selected statistics. However everyone will still know they are wrong. I love the "scientific" parenting community. It is so entertaining.
I know we are not supposed to judge other people's parenting decisions, especially a decision to be away from one's small child for work, but I just can't understand it.
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