SheKnows / These Women Don’t Want Kids OR a Career — & That’s Totally Fine
December 27

SheKnows / These Women Don’t Want Kids OR a Career — & That’s Totally Fine

“I am a woman who never wanted children and who is perfectly content doing exactly what I am doing now, which is learning more about myself and my maternal lineage and writing about it,” says Karen C.L. Anderson, author of Difficult Mothers, Adult Daughters: A Guide for Separation, Liberation & Inspiration. “I care about this because a good number of women have kids or have hyper-focused careers (or both) because that’s what our culture dictates, not because it’s what they truly want. Humans aren’t taught, either implicitly or explicitly, to follow their true natures and desires because we’ve learned to cut off our bodily wisdom (emotions, nervous system, the ‘feminine’) in favor of intellect and brain wisdom (the ‘masculine’). In many ways, this dynamic has served humanity and, in many ways, it’s been a disservice. I am not here to judge it, to say it shouldn’t have happened this way, or to call it right/wrong/good/bad. I am focused on what’s next and what’s possible for humans.”

 

Full post found here: https://www.sheknows.com/parenting/articles/2143392/i-dont-want-kids-or-a-career/

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