The Joys of modern motherhood

[Emu]

I know you probably don't speak a lot of English in your daily life, but you need to come back to an English-speaking country again and get your grammar back in shape. Good god.

That said, I'm not sure what you think is 'eroding.' There's a good amount of evidence to argue that motherhood (and womanhood in general) is in better shape in the modern US than it has ever been. The fact is, people have always been foisting their kids off on other people. It used to be quite common for upper class folk to slap their baby into the hands of a wet nurse and see it maybe once or twice a fucking week while they went out and socialized. Certainly it's no longer the world of 50's sitcoms where the woman was a home-maker and nothing else, but I don't think there's anything to suggest that that's necessarily better than what we have now. Obviously, the populace of women in general were not happy with that setup or we would not have evolved out of it.

The notion that motherhood and wifedom should be nothing more than being barefoot and pregnant (going off of Jeanette's comment) is pretty patently ridiculous on the face of it. You say modern motherhood is eroding, so naturally the behavior of modern mothers is somehow damaging to children, right? Wouldn't it be better for the children to have a mother who can maintain her life and be happy, or to have a mother who resents the child because it took away her life (and all this simply by virtue of the fact that she's the woman and she gets pregnant and her husband does not)?

You call yourself a conservative, so shouldn't it speak to you that this is at least a little bit oppressive? There's nothing to suggest that these mothers are foisting their kids off 5 nights a week and shirking their other responsibilities to go suck down booze and complain about sagging breasts.

You could make the comparison between childrearing and a full time job, but the difference is that childrearing is a 24/7 job, and nobody will chide you for going out for a drink and complaining about your boss on your time off.