I don't think there is a campaign of social condemnation of childless women and I assume Leah Vincent never meant that.
I think it is just the natural consequence of a society which views fertility as important. All humans have a sense of shame and failure when they don't accomplish something which their society views as important.
I don't think there is a campaign of social condemnation of childless women and I assume Leah Vincent never meant that.
I think it is just the natural consequence of a society which views fertility as important. All humans have a sense of shame and failure when they don't accomplish something which their society views as important.
However, I that the critical factor is not valuing fertility but rather deemphasizing 'productivity' and human intervention. I think this is why religion in general, and Ultra-Orthodox Jews and Amish in particular are high fertility.
Yes, she only wrote about it very figuratively. A childless married woman couldn't appear attractive because childlessness made her unattractive. That was all she wrote, as I remember it.
I don't think there is a campaign of social condemnation of childless women and I assume Leah Vincent never meant that.
I think it is just the natural consequence of a society which views fertility as important. All humans have a sense of shame and failure when they don't accomplish something which their society views as important.
However, I that the critical factor is not valuing fertility but rather deemphasizing 'productivity' and human intervention. I think this is why religion in general, and Ultra-Orthodox Jews and Amish in particular are high fertility.
Yes, she only wrote about it very figuratively. A childless married woman couldn't appear attractive because childlessness made her unattractive. That was all she wrote, as I remember it.