Culture of choice?
April 10, 2008
The problem with choices made is that once they are made, we have to live with them. It is a strange facet of our post-Christian society that women would concoct elaborate fictions in order to seem as though they belong to “the secret club of women with children” — and in order, perhaps, to satisfy the urge toward motherhood that is an integral, if ignored, part of their being — and yet remain entrenched in their “choice” to never have children of their own, for real.
For the truth is that motherhood is no more a secret club than is womanhood. And yet for many, it is a far distant country, or seems to be, because they have swallowed whole the lies that society has fed to them.
