When Sheila Heti’s novel, Motherhood, was published in the US, many of the reviews opened with personal experiences. If the longing for babies that women feel must be biological – then wouldn’t not feeling it also be biological? “There is a kind of sadness in not wanting the things that give so many other people their life’s meaning,” she writes. “There can be sadness at not living out a more universal story – the supposed life cycle.”‘It's the breaking of a taboo’: the parents who regret having children Read moreThere is shame attached to not wanting children, Heti says. “Maybe there’s a basic shame women feel and it just attaches to anything,” she says, laughing.

Source: The Guardian May 25, 2018 10:52 UTC