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North Shore News

Sith SPORE TATED:

life isn’t

THE TRADITIONAL Mother’ $ Day vision of mothering
makes for lovely cultural mythology, but talk to any ran-
dom group of modern mothers slogging it out in the toddler
trenches and you'll find there's s more to it than the madonna

image lets on.

Rienne | Bruce lives ‘in. North
Vancouver District. The most re-
cent census data (1986) records
10,805 husband and wife families
with. children at home in = the
‘district. The data’ shows 2,090
families in the
“municipality, with 380 headed by
lone males and’ I; 710 by lone fe-
males, 2.

Bruce, 29, and her husband have
opted to have her stay at home
-while the children are: young. Her

husband ‘holds.a- job while she |:
. Mother’s Day is to get an hour. to

‘holds together the family at home. -
Said Bruce:.‘'I felt I could bring
up my: children the ..best: way,

rather than have them brought up
in a day care by someone else."

The couple has‘ two boys, six-
“month-old Damien and two-ycar-

Mother’ 3 Day. will probably mean
- more. » the . family when
“Children area fittle older. 4

» Helen. Reresford, 44, i isa single

Bruce believes.
the :

cme to be, The

By MICHAEL BECKER
mother of twa living. on welfare in
North Vancouver | City. ’ Census
data records 3,210 -husband and
wife families with children at home
in the city. There are 2,090 lone-
parent familics recosded, with 380
single-male- househoid heads and
1,710° single families headed by .
females.

Said Beresford: ‘‘All 1 want for

go out for a run and rechi rge my
batteries."
Her greatest joy in’:

triumphs.’

Said Beresford: “nm single-parent:
family is a very stressed-out fami-
ty, but f feel this is the place for
isolation

2

etng the ,
.: mother of niné-month-old Michael
‘and ‘seven-year-old “Andrea is
-found in. “the day to day: little .

is the

toughest, but we're really winning.
The children are both healthy and
happy.””. ;

Sherry Linder, 43, is the mother
of 3%-year-old son Jesse and 23-
year-old daughter Kim. The West
Vancouver mother and “her” hus-
band Erwin both hoid down jobs.
She works in the TV and film in-
‘dustry,

The family is one of the 9,385
West Vancouver husband and wife
families recorded during the ‘86
census.. The census records 890 .
‘lone<parent families, with 180 lone
males. and 710 Jone fernales
heading the families. :

“This Mother's Day I° i be

_ working on a film called Fly UH. 1
will be. down in some hallway
somewhere in the lower depths of
.- Vancouver,"’ she said.
_ Her..son ‘attends day care five
days a-week. But last ‘year her job
gave her the flexibility to work six
months of the year and stay at
home for six months. ©

‘When we shoot at nights and
ducing graveyard hours and | go'te
° see him at the day care during the
day it's tough on him. Being at .«
home with Jesse and sharing his .
life i brings me the most joy.’

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RIENNE BRUCE ‘quit her Job us ‘a recep lonist when son number one -
wes bor. She: atays at _home.with her two young children, two-year-old

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