Its all about the kids...

Author Caitlin Moran in her book, How to Be a Woman presents motherhood in an extremely negative light. In her hypocritical opinion women are throwing away their most youthful, exciting, and lively days to sit at home with a baby on her hip in the nursery. She seems to state that women simply cannot have it all and be happy with children; essentially it is a choice of throwing away youth and beauty, or doing what you want to do.  She states that women simply want to have kids because it is what has been programed into us as well as that when women don’t want children they are looked at in a way to make them feel as if they just said they would murder a puppy. Many women I feel don’t have her same mentality, even those with careers. She focuses on the negative aspects of child bearing, having to put the career on hold and losing sleep at night, though there is a distinct other side of the story which should be told as well. These are things that maybe she didn’t realize during her child rearing years that truly make being a mother worth it, and to this side of the opinion, she isn’t being fair.  The pride and joy of being a mother is assisting another human in becoming the best they can be in the parents’ own image, and experiencing the world with them.