January 23, 2004

When Time Is Passing on the Biological Clock and the Tenure Clock

To the Editor:

I belong to a generation of mothers who had it much easier, at least in one respect, than Jenny Spinner and the other struggling mothers Robin Wilson describes in "How Babies Alter Careers for Academics" (December 5). Most of us did not breast-feed our children. When I had my first baby in 1956, I did what all my friends in Washington did: I used formula. In those days, breast-feeding was considered slightly archaic: fine if you lived in a third-world country and were

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