Motherhood Should Come With A Warning Label
It would read "This is better than you ever believed it could be."
I’m not one of those women who spent her childhood cradling baby dolls or daydreaming about her wedding day. I wasn’t the little girl who played house or fantasized about motherhood. Honestly, for a while, I wondered if I might be a lesbian, simply because I felt so detached from anything stereotypically “girly.” It wasn’t until puberty that I realized—nope, I definitely liked boys. But even then, I never fully embraced the traditional ideas of femininity, and I certainly didn’t expect to follow a conventional path into marriage and motherhood.
Which is why it still feels so surprising—even to me—that I’ve become such an unapologetic advocate for this life. So when I see headlines like the recent New York Times piece, “Motherhood Should Come With a Warning Label,” I feel an almost visceral disgust. The video compilation featured women crying as they recounted how having children had derailed their careers.