I had my qualms about last week’s column on parenthood, or lack thereof, even before it printed.
In the column, I expressed my annoyance at the physiological pressure (the so-called biological clock) and the sociocultural pressure to reproduce.
My point was not best illustrated by my own experience.
Yes, as a childless woman in my 30s, I take some issue with the implication that not being a mother makes a woman somehow emotionally stunted or incomplete. However, I am in a “not yet” situation. I want children, very much, I just don’t have them because of pragmatic reasons. The women I know who don’t wish to have children at all face far more scrutiny on the maternity topic than I ever will.
This isn’t an effort to rehash the subject but simply an attempt to illustrate the realization that looking through another lens would have been the wise choice.