Motherhood and Social Pressure
Motherhood is sacred and women have an innate maternal instinct!
To what extent is this women’s natural state and to what extent is it instilled with millennia of expectations?
A woman is wired to wear and bear children, but how wired is she to raise them?
And especially to raise them mostly alone? Because that’s what happens in practice in the vast majority of families. The mother takes it upon herself! If the children are sick, she will be awake, she will be absent from work, most often she will take them to and collect them from kindergartens and schools... And so for a minimum of 18 years — pretty much her whole life!
On top of that, when she has devoted her entire youth and organized all her time around this sacred occupation, there comes a time when she has to let her grown children look after their own lives and she has to stay out of their way and find some other meaning in her life! After eighteen years devoted to raising children, most women have forgotten to have much else to enjoy and then just go on living in anticipation of the next children — the grandchildren!
And when the family breaks up, which is happening more and more often, the situation becomes even scarier for the woman!
She is obliged to look after her children! By an unwritten law she is obliged! If, for example, she decides to leave them to their father to raise, she will be branded a bad mother and an outright monster!
So, heaps of mothers are bringing up their children on their own and it is really quite right to call them single mothers! In child duty, they are literally abandoned by the other parent and the law totally allows this to happen on a daily basis!
Is this how we fight the demographic crisis? We are incentivising women not to dare have more than one child... and soon even none!
If the separation has gone through the courts, the father usually fights bitterly not for his children but for the ability to pay the minimum support (even none if it were possible!) and that pretty much exhausts all his obligations!
He is left a free man with a lot more free time and a lot more free resources than the mother! And this practice is accepted quite normally by society and nobody sees anything wrong with it!
So, isn’t the mother naturally wired to sacrifice herself for her children? It is a complete taboo to refuse to sacrifice!
Intuitively, young girls sense this obvious injustice and feel less and less this so natural desire to give birth and raise children!
Around them, families break up, a woman’s career crumbles when she indulges in her children, her social life falls apart, and even her appearance crumbles. Sometimes even her desire for life crumbles, but we are not allowed to talk about that!
So isn’t a woman bound to be overflowing with happiness for bearing and raising children? Is there anything better than children in this world? Does life make sense without children?
If any woman dares to have feelings other than those listed above, she is considered sick and downright abnormal! And the social pressure on girls begins:
Come on, won’t you get married! Time passes! When are you going to give birth?! You won’t have time for a second one!
So the chain is instilled in every female being that it is compulsory to bear and raise children!
A woman with her supposedly equal rights actually has no right to defy this “natural” order! She has the right, but only in theory! In practice, everything and everyone around her pressures her to act like other women!
The insanity is that they are pressuring her, yet they can guarantee her absolutely no security or rights as a future single mother!
Because the sad truth is that whether they live with a man or without a man, in their duties as a parent, most women are left alone!