TCW Encore: Mrs May’s war on motherhood
by Kathy Gyngell, The Conservative Woman:
If Laura and I had a paramount issue that we cared about when we set out to create The Conservative Woman website, it was the war on motherhood. Whether it was in relation to the feminists’ failure to defend, assert the importance of and raise the status of motherhood, or the State’s progressive takeover of primarily maternal and family responsibilities, we were dismayed about what this meant for children and for our future.
One impact has become clear: if society relegates motherhood and mothering then women do too. Women are turning their backs on being mothers, and they are turning their backs on children. This is coldly evident in the statistics – the declining birth rates, delayed pregnancies and the normalisation of abortion (which now has gone full circle from backstreet to home bathroom) and the normalisation of only child families (one baby will do).
Young women seem to think childbirth can be ever delayed (in the name of equality, which must come first) and is something they can manage, on their own too, with the help of wonderful new technology. They are being encouraged to believe a myth. IVF is far from foolproof and can have health consequences, as can abortion. Single parent life is not a ball of fun, for child or parent. Children need families – fathers, grandparents and brothers and sisters.
For a long time women have been told that that the State and men must mitigate the disadvantage of having children has on work and careers. Now Mrs May plans to enshrine this nonsense in law. It is nonsense not just because it feeds irrational resentment and is irrational when it comes to the efficient and fair working of the workplace. It has not succeeded in making women happier or more fulfilled, as the many articles about women and families being damaged by the lies demonstrate.
The fact is the feminism that Mrs May represents and uses her political clout to enforce has lost touch with science, love and common sense. And most of all with children and their needs. It is sad. It is more than sad. Policies (and culture) need to change fast to make families and family life possible again.
The fact that this post was by a long way the most widely read ever on this site means that Laura and I are far from alone in our message about motherhood.
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