The dining room often serves as center stage for key occasions in family life. Gathering around the table to celebrate rites of passage write family history in holiday meals, parties and other special occasions. The Dear Womanhouse artwork in the dining room addresses a range of women’s roles as form givers in the identity of family: what it’s like to bear up under the persistent social pressure and ongoing disappointment of not being able to have children, the way personal family history and identity is shaped by social agencies, and the inner conflict experienced by mothers who work outside the home as they are torn between child rearing and professional responsibilities.