Motherhood

“Imagine you meet a single mother struggling to raise a 2-year-old alone—her dreams of medical school crushed and unlikely to be fulfilled, her dating life filled with an endless series of men who back away from raising someone else’s child….You see that she is breaking under the strain, and just as you are thinking how sad it is, someone hands you a button.

“…where a mom works makes a big difference, as we found in our analysis of the American Time Use Survey (ATUS), which asks Americans how, and with whom, they spent the prior day…. moms who work from home spend significantly more time with their young children compared to moms who work in-person.” - IFS

“According to ShoutYourAbortion.com (yes, that is a real website), women who want children are the abnormal ones…. This website is among the legacies of a society now well into its fourth wave of feminism. Women see the procreative design of their bodies as a problem to be avoided or solved, not a gift of God.” - Breakpoint

“Every time we let someone say, ‘Oh, I’m just a mom,’ and don’t honor her work, we let stand the idea that serving the vulnerable is somehow a lesser existence—when in reality it is the foundation of any society that hopes to survive.” - Acton

“As a mother myself, my appreciation for what the lifetime job of being a mother entails is profound. What our mothers do for us starts before we are even fully formed….I find as I get older that I never stop needing my mother.” - IFWE

“I read of a letter that a husband reportedly wrote to his wife. She had left him and their son after a fight, and two days later he wrote her this letter” - James Emery White

“…my mom said people are more likely to listen to those who don’t talk all the time. Because she didn’t, I have lessons from her I’ll never forget.” - BPNews

“For mothers whose youngest child was age 5 to 12, average time spent on secondary care increased by about 2.5 hours from 2019 to 2020, from an average of 5.8 to 8.2 hours a day, before dipping to an average of 7.1 hours a day in 2021.” - Pew

“If a mother is just a birthing person … a mother’s child is not hers in any morally thick sense. If children are raised to believe parental authority is arbitrary, and if lawyers and policymakers ingest the same vision, then the rich network of claims and duties binding parents to children will become publicly unintelligible.” - Public Discourse

“How the church can have a better conversation about the falling fertility rate and society’s changing expectations for mothers.” - C.Today