Tomorrow is Mother's day. We will be celebrating our mothers and showing them how much they mean to us for all they have done for us. Being a mother is certainly not the easiest of tasks. Is motherhood is a responsibilty of women; is it a choice - to decide to have children, or is having children a requirement of womanhood.
When a woman rarely replies that they do not wish to have children , they are looked at in a shocked and almost disgusted manner. Society expects that all women want to have kids...that yearning, to well....mother is supposedly part of everywoman and thus the only way women are supposedly fulfilled is through having children. Often people perceive that women who do not want to have kids are "selfish". Even though men who do not wish to have kids are very rarely looked upon with similar disdain.
Is a woman who chooses not to have children selfish?
In my opinion it is not our right to judge a woman's personal decision to either have or not have children. Not having children does not make a woman less of a WOMAN; Neither does it make her less valuable to society.
I think if we look impartially we can see that there is "selfishness" in both choosing to have kids , as well as choosing not to have kids. But this depends on why we are deciding to have kids or not have kids.
The most important thing is that we are allowed to make this decision. Having children is a personal choice and should always be so.
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