ABSTRACT
Some Movement Women would like to experiment with rearing children communally. Movement Women attacked the specialization of women in child rearing from two angles: that of women themselves and that of the children. Their own case could be simply stated: so long as child rearing is an exclusive female function, equality in any other area remains impossible. Movement Women argued for less rigid role specialization from the point of view of the children's welfare. They wanted the kind of "marriage that has the potential for giving children the love and concern of two parents rather than one." They accuse our society, despite its insistence that it is child-centered, of being really antichild. Like Movement Women, though to a lesser degree, Bruno Betteleheim had challenged our acceptance of the two-role split in the lives of women.
