After many years of being a proud, hip and forward thinking mother I am still embracing and occasionally loathing my domesticity.  I too am educated, independent, confident and well-travelled but of all the things I've ever done, motherhood has been and still is the most demanding, the most difficult and ultimately the most delicious.  It offends me greatly to read this crap written about young mothers/any mothers in the media. Who are these people?
Bravo Wyliekat, you sum it up well!
I'm with Squawks, however, on the 50's housewife thing.  I'm at a loss over what to cook and I may need another glass of wine to sort the issue out...
