The Madness of Modern Motherhood

Unless you've been living on another planet, you know that we have endured an orgy of motherphilia for at least the last two decades. Movie stars proudly display their baby bumps, and the shiny magazines at the checkout counter never tire of describing the joys of celebrity parenthood. Bearing and rearing children has come to be seen as life's greatest good. Never mind that there are now enough abandoned children on the planet to make breeding unnecessary. Professional narcissists like Angelina Jolie and Madonna want their own little replicas in addition to the African and Asian children that they collect to advertise their open-mindedness. Nannies are seldom photographed in these carefully arranged family scenes. We are to assume that all this baby-minding is painless, easy and cheap.


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loved it! couldn't agree more. especially:


"a set of expectations that makes them feel inadequate no matter how passionately they attend to their children."


mother's give themselves enough pressure as it is to raising their children 'properly' or the 'best way' possible. we, women, don't need anymore outside influences putting even more expectations on us than we need!

All of us hope for the best of situation when the joy of motherhood begins.. that our child is normal, that the finances are in the best levels, our husbands trying their best etc etc, however, what is very important in my humble point is that we mothers change the way we bring up our boys, to hopefully have happy daughters ( in laws ) and that is my most top priority with my boys.. goood luck to all, everyone of you are doing your very best.

Here here darilang.. and that we encourage our daughters to think broader and farther..