In Beth Ditto's fortnightly advice column for The Guardian, she explains the pressure she feels to have children as a 30-year-old, unmarried woman. Despite the fact that she's a lesbian and constantly told that "even lesbians can have babies these days" line, Ditto says that while she loves kids and thinks they're great for some people, the idea of children is very "romanticized". She asks her female readers where the pressure to have kids comes from, and advises to separate "their feelings from yours". She even sites Britney Spears as a "testament" to the fact that kids aren't exactly for everyone. She closes her brilliant column with this:
"This archaic idea - that a woman who is unmarried and childless at 30 is somehow unnatural - will probably always exist, and, like most social standards, it is ridiculous. Please, let's all make a pledge. Ignore it!"
[via The Guardian]
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