Diane Sawyer’s Views on Motherhood

Did you see the April 2006 issue of Ladies’ Home Journal Magazine? The cover story, entitled "The Secret to Sawyer: A Look into Diane Sawyer's Personal Life", is an interview with the "PrimeTime Live" and "Good Morning America" co-host. In the atricle Diane Sawyer shares her views on various aspects of her life including her feelings about “motherhood, marriage, God, dieting – and turning 60.”

As an adoptive mom I like Diane Sawyer’s views on motherhood. She says, “I think a good mother is such a heavenly thing to see. [...] Whether adopted or biological, there is something about your child depending on you every day that is a direct beam of light from one life to the other. It’s just a direct and unequaled bond.”

Of course, a mom's job is often not glamorous. Moms often put in very long days, juggle many simultaneous tasks, run various family errands and face unending household chores. Of course, it's a labor of love. Something that we, as adoptive moms, have longed for and wanted so much.

On turning 60, Diane Sawyer said, “Whether it’s foster care and the despair that’s seeded in that, or whether it’s exhaustion from too much to do. These are things that can be solved, and there’s just not a whole lot of tolerance anymore for spending another 10 years without getting something done.”

Isn’t it nice to hear from someone like Diane Sawyer that she not only is a humanitarian, but she repects and values motherhood, too?

Robin Bartko