
Women Without Kids
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Narrated by:
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Ruby Warrington
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By:
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Ruby Warrington
About this listen
What is "woman" if not "mother"?
Anything she wants to be.
Foregoing motherhood has traditionally marked a woman as "other." With no official place setting for her in our society, she has hovered on the sidelines: the quirky girl, the neurotic career obsessive, the "eccentric" aunt. Instead of continuing to paint women without kids as sad, self-obsessed, or somehow dysfunctional, what if we saw them as boldly forging a new vision for a fully autonomous womankind? Or as journalist and thought leader Ruby Warrington asks, what if being a woman without kids were in fact its own kind of legacy?
Taking in themes from intergenerational healing to feminism to environmentalism, this personal look and anthropological dig into a stubbornly taboo topic is a timely and brave reframing of what it means not to be a mum. Whether we are childless by design or circumstance, we can live without regret, shame, or compromise.
Bold and tenderhearted, Women Without Kids seeks first and foremost to help validate a path that is the natural consequence of women having more say about the choices we make and how our lives play out. Within this, it unites the unsung sisterhood of non-mothers as a vital part of our evolution and collective healing as women, as humans, and as a global family.
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©2023 Ruby Warrington (P)2023 Orion Publishing Group LimitedA must read for childfree-by-choice women
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Validation!
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amazing book.
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An important book
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You need to hear this
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I really enjoyed the narration by the author.
A compassionate and sensitive exploration
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Indispensable
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If you don’t want them I don’t think you owe anyone an explanation, ever, no matter who they are or their opinion, it’s not their life it’s yours.
If you want kids please only have them if you are happy for them to life this life, not one you dream for them. Get real!
And only for them, not to make your life better, because it won’t be better with kids, it’s hard really really really hard. And I don’t need to go into it, it just is.
Then consider the relationship you imagine you’ll be bringing kids up in, that might fail. Or they might not be that great a mum/dad. And the child themselves, might have a disability. My eldest son is Autistic and i feel guilty for putting him through this, a life and a system that is not built for him, a schooling system that is failing him. He’s been out of school for nearly 2 years! Consider this happening!
I adore my kids but I didn’t really think about it.
Oh and that ‘help’ you think might exist from grandparents or other friends or family. That does not really happen! Not like you’d imagine. They were done with you and don’t want to do it again, and probably if you asked them wouldn’t of done it if they’d of known.
You won’t die alone, you’ll be fine. And if you start to feel sad that you don’t or didn’t have kids. Thats because you are dreaming about what it could be like, the same dream we all had before having them.
It’s really hard.
We need to be living a natural communal existence for it not to be, this isolated primary (solo) parenting situation most find themselves in is failing.
Now it seems a mother also needs to have a full time job!
So why not just, not have kids and travel, holiday, sleep, make your own choices, pop out, go out out, stay in, move area, not feel horribly guilty, endlessly fearful, saddened by the state of politics and on and on. We can stomach our lot but that, you’ve never felt love like it also comes with you’ve never felt worry like it! And thats forever too!
You don’t need to explain anything to anyone, EVER!!!!!!!!
I have 3 boys!
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Interesting, thought provoking, validating
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