Shulamith Firestone

“The rise of the modern nuclear family, with its adjunct ‘childhood’, tightened the noose around the already economically dependent group by extending and reinforcing what had been only a brief dependence, by the usual means: the development of a special ideology … And with the increase and exaggeration of children’s dependence, woman’s bondage to motherhood was also extended to its limits. Women and children were now in the same lousy boat.” –The Dialectic of Sex: A case for Feminist Revolution