People could be more compassionate towards others who are different from them, and enjoy it more, if they wanted to feel that way.
I have noticed that in some books, when people create chapters on infertility, the solutions often seem very shallow: do better self-care and then you will get pregnant! Okay so what? How do I know that turned out well for you or the child? This has been my disappointment with the book I was reading recently.
The shallowness is being reflected in how people are behaving in our modern day society. It's becoming more and more dangerous to get pregnant, depending on which state you're living in. The rates of maternal mortality have gone up. People's psychological well-being is being affected, too. And yet, we're supposed to live in this bubble that if you do the self-care and you get pregnant, everything's going to magically get better. No, it doesn't work out that way!
Some children are truly more in danger than others right now because of the biases and prejudices. Some parents are literally more in danger of being kidnapped by ICE agents than others. Their children are more in danger of being kidnapped than others. How does self-care and then getting pregnant magically make that problem go away? Well it doesn't, does it. I don't think it does. I haven't seen it go away at all. It just makes people look narcissistic when they think that that's the best they can do.
Shallow, biologically reductive adults who are insensitive to the situations that are being experienced by other people's children are not my role models. They could go deeper if they were actually motivated to go deeper. Surface level achievements are not so impressive to some when we constantly see how many people's lives are being drastically threatened.
People could see it as a fun challenge to be more compassionate towards human beings who are different from them if they really wanted to.
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