motherhood and not wanting it

[tielan]

I'm trying to think of whether there's any societally acceptable way (offline, outside of the kind of circles that we encounter here in online fandom) for a woman who's already had kids to express the sentiment that she wishes she'd never had them and I'm coming up blank.

The ones I can think of would mostly get waved away as "selfishness" - ie. career interruption, limitations on lifestyle - or "that's part of the role" - ie. emotional/physical/mental struggle, dealing with the children 90% of the time.

Can you think of one?

Comments

[frith_in_thorns]

Sadly, the only example I can think of is when the child has severe disabilities :/

tw: murder of disabled children (not specified whom, but This Shit Keeps Happening)

[alexseanchai]

and then she can murder the kid flat out and admit to cops that's what she did and nobody except disabled adults actually thinks she deserves more than being sternly finger-wagged at >_

Re: tw: murder of disabled children (not specified whom, but This Shit Keeps Happening)

[karmageddon]

Unfortunately yes.

Re: tw: murder of disabled children (not specified whom, but This Shit Keeps Happening)

[tielan]

D: