To Have Or Not To Have
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-10786279 For any mother reading this, of course the answer to the question 'To have or not to have' children is that it is now a fait accompli , enjoy and/or get on with it. But I was fascinated to be sent this link on the 'Childfree Debate' by a friend the other day. I haven't even heard the Women's Hour debates yet; simply reading the comments was enthralling. (an aside: they were far more considered and polite comments than I have seen on the topic of mothers and children in the press: I wonder what made the difference?) The gist is that a woman's decision about whether to have or not to have children is all too often seen as public property. In the main it is women who are asked whether or not they want to have children, are pregnant yet, told they must have children, or told they are unwomanly if they do not yet, cannot, or choose not to. As more than one commentator pointed out, however, the converse is also true: th...