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The Family Weekly: What Marketers Think Moms Want

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In an attempt to understand how marketers try to sell things to moms, the staff writer Joe Pinsker attended the 14th annual “Marketing to Moms” conference, where stress, doubt, and guilt. It’s a “bleak depiction of modern motherhood,” Pinsker writes, but

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