--- title: Why It Might Be Time to Rethink Motherhood description: Rethinking motherhood, why Facebook should give away our data, misunderstanding Alzheimer's disease, and more. canonical: https://time.com/3851403/rethink-motherhood/ author: TIME article:opinion: true article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2015-05-08T16:01:36.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-05-11T05:04:05.483Z article:section: Ideas og:title: Why It Might Be Time to Rethink Motherhood og:description: These are today's best ideas og:url: https://time.com/3851403/rethink-motherhood/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: TIME og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Why It Might Be Time to Rethink Motherhood twitter:description: These are today's best ideas twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production --- # Why It Might Be Time to Rethink Motherhood by [The Aspen Institute](https://time.com/author/the-aspen-institute/) ## The Aspen Institute May 8, 2015 4:01 PM UTC by [The Aspen Institute](https://time.com/author/the-aspen-institute/) ## The Aspen Institute May 8, 2015 4:01 PM UTC **1\.** [**Motherhood is a cultural invention. It might be time to rethink it.**](http://www.bostonglobe.com/opinion/2015/05/06/mother-day-perfect-time-rethink-our-social-construct-motherhood/uVxz4i8aQVQwfvPV2L9k3O/story.html) By Kathleen McCartney in the Boston Globe **2\.** [**You should want Facebook to give away your data.**](http://www.edtechmagazine.com/higher/article/2015/05/social-scientists-new-data-dilemma) By Tara E. Buck in EdTech **3\.** [**Do we have Alzheimer’s completely wrong?**](http://www.pri.org/stories/2015-04-30/do-we-all-have-alzhemers-completely-wrong-man-says-yes) By Turna Ray at Science Friday **4\.** [**On the brink of becoming Ebola-free, Liberia should embrace its survivors.**](http://allafrica.com/stories/201505060536.html) By AllAfrica **5\.** [**Can an app improve America’s crumbling infrastructure?**](http://nationswell.com/im-stuck-app-tracks-traffic-jams-delays/) By Ashley Tate in NationSwell  [_The Aspen Institute_](http://www.aspeninstitute.org/) _is an educational and policy studies organization based in Washington, D.C._ ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"OpinionNewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/3851403/rethink-motherhood/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/3851403/rethink-motherhood/"},"headline":"Why It Might Be Time to Rethink Motherhood","datePublished":"2015-05-08T16:01:36.000Z","dateModified":"2026-05-11T05:04:05.483Z","description":"These are today's best ideas","url":"https://time.com/3851403/rethink-motherhood/","keywords":["Innovation","society","apps","facebook","motherhood","Infrastructure","Data topic","Traffic","Alzheimer's Disease","ebola","Liberia","Mother's Day"],"thumbnailUrl":"","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"The Aspen Institute","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/the-aspen-institute/"}],"articleSection":"Ideas","image":[],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/section/ideas/","name":"Ideas"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"/tag/innovation/","name":"Innovation"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/3851403/rethink-motherhood/","name":"Why It Might Be Time to Rethink Motherhood"}}]}] ```