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Coming up on forum, Laura Bazelon says more mothers need to stop feeling guilty about their professional ambitions

and recognize that having a career is not at odds with being a good parent.

In fact, prioritizing work is good for kids, helping to instill independence and resilience.

Bazelon, a law professor and mother of two, has a new book, Ambitious Like a Mother.

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The idea of the selfless mother and work-life balance are false gods, according to Lara Bazelon, and partly why so many moms still feel that ambition and motherhood are no more compatible now than they were decades ago.

Bazelon, a law professor, criminal defense lawyer, and mother of two spoke to dozens of moms across

racial and geographic lines, cisgender and LGBTQ, and in a variety

of jobs, who are both professionally ambitious and mothers, but they also shared something else,

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