Anyone ever listen to Five Stop Mother Superior Rain?
I started hearing it in my head while reading this article about the timing of motherhood. It seems that no matter what women do, they incur criticism.
In a country where the fertility rate has fallen from 2.95 children per woman in 1964 to just 1.77 in 2004, and where experts have acknowledged that we need to start having more children in order to maintain the current population, it is quite a surprise that anyone willing and able to have a child would be criticised for doing so.
It's not just women over the age of 40 who get given a tough time in the press for becoming pregnant, though.
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Non-mothers, like myself, are also criticised for not having babies in a country with an ageing population that needs to increase its birth rate.
Ah yes, You're fucked if you do, and you're fucked if you don't.
Posted by binky at June 26, 2006 01:08 PM | TrackBack | Posted to Reproductive Autonomyactually, i'm pretty sure that in a perfect (GOP) world you're not fucked at all. or at least you don't enjoy it.
Posted by: moon at June 26, 2006 01:41 PM | PERMALINKWell, it's the connotative - not denotative - "fucked" to be sure. And that's not GOP world. The article is talking about the UK.
Posted by: binky at June 26, 2006 01:47 PM | PERMALINK