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This paper examines the concept of democratic motherhood, shaped during the Postwar era, which highly influenced the family dynamic and the concept of motherhood. In the realm of childrearing in the mid-twentieth century America, how to raise a healthy and democratic citizen gained significance. Thus, the role of mother became indispensable for the process of child care. Mother should be psychologically healthy and emotionally mature by learning how to react to the development of their own child. With a special attention to Benjamin Spock's The Common Sense Book of Baby and Child Care and his advice, this paper aims to delve how Spock defined democratic values in the process of child care and how he advised to inculcate these values into the relationship between mother and child.

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