Motherhood Vs. Feminism?

Women who don't want to have children are not selfish, immature, less feminine and they surely shouldn't have to explain anything to anybody. Yet seeing how the concept of motherhood is being belittled by many feminists is a topic that must be confronted quickly.

We convince girls they can do and become anything they desire; if they truly want it and fight hard enough they can conquer the world. We encourage them to encourage themselves, to break every barrier, jump each obstacle and climb to the highest of their expectations. We assure them with the fact that they can be everything and have it all… And yes, we can. Until we become pregnant.

Why does everything crumble when a woman decides to also be a mother?

I’ve read several articles on mothers who regret having had children, longing for the hypothetical life they could have had without them. But motherhood isn’t what's to blame, it is not pregnancy, the babies or the toddlers who ‘’ruin’’ a woman’s goals. It is a wrong methodology in the third and fourth-wave feminism that has failed us.

In the wise words of Maria Shriver “Having kids—the responsibility of rearing good, kind, ethical, responsible human beings—is the biggest job anyone can embark on.” So, again, why the taboo?

There is a growing fear of sacrifice and commitment, therefore it is no surprise we are slowly evolving into a Me-First society. Perhaps, as the article says it:

It may well be time for motherhood to have “a feminism of its own.”