This. Yes to everything about this.
Lately, I’ve been thinking the term “Mommy Wars” is a bit of a misnomer.
Sure, there’s a lot of in-group bickering going on about stuff like using formula vs. breastfeeding, staying at home vs. going back to work, and whether we should be allowed to skip vaccinations.
But the term “mommy wars” makes it seem like we wouldn’t have parenting debates in America at all, if it weren’t for these endless, tedious catfights… as though parenting is somehow only a woman’s problem and we women just refuse to sort it out.
And I don’t get it.
Yes, biology means women have to deal with pregnancy and childbirth, but there is so much more to parenthood than that.
Weren’t all of us children once? Don’t children also have fathers? Even if we don’t all choose to be parents, doesn’t someone need to do it for our society, not to mention the human race, to exist?
I don’t believe the parenting problems in our…
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