There are a whole lot of moms who do not love their children as we expect mothers to and who do not provide the things a child needs to grow up feeling at home in the world. Some of these moms embody the Hera archetype, whose fulfillment comes from being married, not from being a mother. If Hera is the dominant archetype in a woman who becomes a mother, the children are bound to suffer.

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Photograph credit: Philip Jones Griffiths