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HannahMR
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Modern day motherhood is miserable and that's why fewer women are choosing it.

If you want women to chose it, make it less miserable.

Why is it miserable? Because we are doing it all wrong. One woman alone in a house with small children all day is torture. That’s not how humans work. Humans are designed to live in a pack and raise children communally. If we want women to not be miserable raising kids, then we need to bring that community back. We need to take all that burden off them and share it around so that they can continue to be normal humans.

If women have to give up all that they are to have kids, then a lot of them will chose not to have kids.
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Phaedrus · 5w
Agree! This seems especially hard in the US where everyone is used to being very independent. I think living in a community requires more compromise and collaboration.
Kayne · 5w
It's literally what seperates us from the other apes. Chimp mother's take sole responsibility of their baby, nobody else is allowed to even touch it. Sharing responsibility, especially over child rearing is what allowed us to become specialised, and it's the leading theory for why human women live...
Richard de Grenville · 4w
In my neighborhood on a weekday adternoon at the local microbrewery, you can often find four or five moms having beers while they chat around the table---they've all got daughters in the dance school's class while their younger kids play in the square. When I discovered that happens I was happy to s...