maternal instinct

Celine Dion stares at us from the front page of People this week. 'My Private Hell' the headline shouts, without a hint of irony. There's been nothing private about Celine Dion's IVF treatments in pursuit of a second child. 'Daily injections, painful tests' - we can know it all, if we want to. Looking at this cover, I wonder, 'How does this make women going through IVF treatment themselves feel?'

It took just a few days for Debbie Rowe to be dragged through the Michael Jackson aftermath mud. For those not following Jackson's melodrama...Rowe is the woman whom Jackson married and then had this two eldest children with back in the 1990s. After Rowe and Jackson divorced Jackson got custody of the children as Rowe signed away her parental rights. She did try to get those rights back once before. Will she do it again?