A 27-year-old woman on television just said, “I don’t really want to have kids. I just want to be a Mom.”
It’s a very scary statement, if you think about it.
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A 27-year-old woman on television just said, “I don’t really want to have kids. I just want to be a Mom.”
It’s a very scary statement, if you think about it.
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Very scary, indeed.
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It does not seem scary to me, but it does seem weird. Much like a college friend of mine who once said to the woman who later became his wife: “It’s OK if we don’t have kids. We can just wait and enjoy our grandchildren.”
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He must have been joking because the statement doesn’t make much sense otherwise.
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That’s very common. Wanting the social role and the position but not their content.
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Common but still scary, though.
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Huh? Does she mean she doesn’t want to have kids biologically and exclusively wants to adopt?
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She’s saying she doesn’t care about having a kid, but she likes the authority and social role of being a mother.
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No, I think she means she’ll have them but only because being a mother is something she looks forward to.
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I think that is what Benoni is saying.
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Ever read romance novels? A very common pattern is a young virgin falling in love with a widower (with a perfect and adorable child).
Same thing – instant motherhood without the icky biology.
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