Saturday, March 16, 2024

It's the 2020s. Are wet nurses no longer what's best for the privileged ones who are choosing to become parents?

"'Your biological clock is ticking! Women have always had babies, what’s wrong with you? Without a son, you are nothing. Why stop after the first child, have another one!' If any of this sounds familiar to you, it’s no surprise. The pressure to have children – sometimes many of them – is everywhere you look. Well-meant advice from parents, the glorification of parenthood in the media, government incentives to alleviate aging populations, and religious encouragement to bring back good old family values, you name it. But what seems at first glance a mosaic of haphazard messages is, in fact, a part of an oppressive social norm called pronatalism."

"WHAT IS PRONATALISM – THE PODCAST"

https://www.populationmedia.org/the-latest/what-is-pronatalism-the-podcast

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