On the issue of lifestyle: my Mum was put on severe 300 and 500 calorie diets; she dug the garden, cycled into town or walked. Her problem was hormonal and gall bladder related. Plus all the women in the family ballooned on having children.
You are right of course that some women enjoy the role and as I have said, I respect women who do it. But health issues that present such problems and occur because of having children cannot be ignored. They damage the woman and the children because the children grow up knowing that they are the cause of them and the severe unhappiness and depression over them.
And of course, one has to want children! Quite apart from personal opinions about population etc, I grew up never understanding why a woman has to put herself through all that misery whilst also causing her to lose her freedom and creating severe financial hardship. There is no doubt the family was perceived as a burden as were my parents by their's.
Why do women have babies?
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On the issue of lifestyle: my Mum was put on severe 300 and 500 calorie diets; she dug the garden, cycled into town or walked. Her problem was hormonal and gall bladder related. Plus all the women in the family ballooned on having children.
You are right of course that some women enjoy the role and as I have said, I respect women who do it. But health issues that present such problems and occur because of having children cannot be ignored. They damage the woman and the children because the children grow up knowing that they are the cause of them and the severe unhappiness and depression over them.
And of course, one has to want children! Quite apart from personal opinions about population etc, I grew up never understanding why a woman has to put herself through all that misery whilst also causing her to lose her freedom and creating severe financial hardship. There is no doubt the family was perceived as a burden as were my parents by their's.