Posted by fallsfall on March 4, 2004, at 16:57:12
In reply to Re: women without children, posted by shortelise on March 4, 2004, at 16:17:40
My mother would have chosen to not have children if she was born at a different time. But in the 50s and 60s women got married, had children, stayed home to raise them, and that is what she did. I was the 3rd (and last) child.
I'm not sure when she told me she wouldn't have had children - I think it was after I started having my own. I love my mother, and she loves me, but she does have severe emotional detachment issues which meant that she was emotionally neglectful of my sisters and me when we were growing up. I think that she didn't want to have kids because somehow she knew that she wouldn't be able to give them what they needed.
I'm glad that my children will feel more like they have a choice of having children or not.
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