For my mom friends. :)

I've been lurking through the Retro Housewife site lately (link at right) and I came across something that I thought I would share with you all, especially since it seems to come up frequently in our conversations. The full article can be found here.

The drive to bare children is so strong that it leads to all sorts of peculiar behavior, huge expenditure and also grief when the blessed event does not occur. At some basic level every woman wants to get pregnant even if the circumstances are not convenient, or her brain is adamantly against it. We can't help it....we were made that way.

I mean, if you look at life rationally, and especially if you live in a country of opportunity for women, why oh why would one choose to forego your freedom, much of your financial resources, and any chance of sleeping in for at least 20 years to have and raise children? Wouldn't it be more fun to travel the world, eat cake, go to the movies when you want, become a plastic surgeon or just nap on the beach?

There is really nothing rational about it, except for the fact that we need to do it, and that nature wants us to do it. The odds are completely stacked in the corner of the reproduction god. It would actually be better if certain people abstained from having children; and by certain people I mean people who really don't want to raise children, or are really, really bad at raising them, or want children for all the wrong reasons. ...