Business of Life

Contempt for Parenthood

What's with this?

Culture of contempt for parenthood

The painful paradox is that while women have liberated themselves from being defined by their biology - the fate of the girl in many African and Asian societies who is not truly a woman until she has given birth - mothers have ended up relegated to the status of constant abject failure in a culture driven by consumerism and workaholism. There is no kudos in being a mum, only in being other things - such as thin, or the boss - despite being a mum. Motherhood is a form of handicap.

Seems to me it's much of the reason behind the baby gap in Europe and elsewhere.

If our greatest biological imperative is the survival of the species, why are we so worried about becoming parents?

Mark Steyn as usual as the best word It's the Demography, Stupid.