Modern (complex) motherhood
Listen to the radio program on this week’s To the Best of Our Knowledge entitled “To Breed or not to Breed” from Wisconsin Public Radio. Whether delayed or forgone, how women see their relationship to motherhood is changing. In the mist of fertility treatments and careers, what I noticed was that how women define a good mother hasn’t changed, and that may be tripping us up more than anything else. Do we have unrealistic expectations of what motherhood means or should be? Do these expectations cause some women to forgo children altogether for fear of not meeting the demands of the model? Why does it seem that motherhood is so complex while fathering appears so simple? Listen and think about all the multiple issues wrapped up in this topic.