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Mothering
It is hard to parent.
Pro-life laws are actually one idea for a hard fu*ing-life when lived. First, you will have all babies and raise them is applied to all women, but not necessarily all men. Yes, fathers exist too. They sometimes skip town or do poor duty as parents in terms of time, sometimes money, and a lot of times of simple thereness for the kid. So, the raising of a child isn’t nothing. It is loads of work, money, and time. It is consistent until the child is grown, and by then you hope you love each other and maintain closer than normal relationships with each other over the lifetimes involved.
This is based on parents and family members who are around during the child’s raising, and who help the child grow as time passes. The goal is a functional adult who contributes to society in some fashion. Most of us do: artists, engineers, religionists, scientists, etc.. Yes. Lifetimes lived.
Some mothers and fathers are great, like mine. Some are mixed. It is hard to raise kids if you are the mother or the father. Regardless of our parenting, we each come into this life, are parented in some fashion, and graduate into the life of our society, whatever it is. This is why classisms of all sorts can come between humans and erect hierarchical orders of person into which we fit at birth. We know where that is by the time we are grown.