do you ever sit and think about your female ancestors and like how many of them endured forced marriages, sexual abuse, physical violence and complete deprivation of education and autonomy and suffered silently for literally centuries. going through pregnancies and child birth without modern medicine, having multiple children and watching most of them die before the age of five because that was just the way of life back then? and ultimately you are a product of their pain? i think about them a lot and then i think about how many women continue to share their reality in this current year
Not many women would have been upset at their children dying though. It wasn’t just commonplace for newborns to die, but also to just not get attached to them. I understand the sentiment, but don’t spread misinformation.
you’re totally right maternal affection and the deep emotional bonding that occurs with ur infant during and directly after birth isn’t an instinctual and ancient human process but a 21st century invention. i am fake news
