Melania Trump's family-first Mother's Day message slammed as 'out of touch' by critics

First lady Melania Trump’s Mother’s Day message this weekend about family, parenting and career emphasized that "women can thrive in both motherhood and business" — yet critics jumped on it, managing to slam both its tone and its timing. 

"A mother’s devotion to her child is unmatched," she wrote in a piece published in The Washington Post, noting that mothers often serve as a child’s "first teachers of empathy, aspiration and discipline."

She said mothers play a central role in shaping their children’s values...