Surprisingly though there is an awful lot of disenchantment and bitterness around motherhood. Just take a look at the breakingmom sub on reddit or any discussion about motherhood that comes up on a feminist or feminist adjacent space.

My bet is that a lot of women enter marriage and parenthood with rose-tinted glasses. They think that their scrote will somehow grow up and realize the importance of maintaining a clean home and start picking up the slack in terms of laundry, dishes, grocery shopping, and the millions of other little things that have to be done to keep a well-maintained home and life afloat. The bitterness comes from mom not having a clean shirt to wear after the baby vomits on her third shirt of the day because laundry hasn't been done in weeks, all the baby bottles are in the sink awaiting the dishwasher, and mom hasn't had a full 8 hours of sleep in months while scrote sleeps undisturbed every night because he doesn't have breasts. Child birth and rearing is inherently disadvantageous to women.

I recently stated on a feminist forum that becoming a SAHM was a financially risky and precarious decision. I was downvoted and castigated for stating a well know fact.

Being a SAHM should never be something a woman aspires to. Men are too fickle and unreliable and any woman who has given that situation an iota of honest thought would recognize that having her own means to financial stability is paramount to her survival. There's no free lunch. None of this is to say that women shouldn't stay home with children, obviously, but be aware of the consequences to earning and career potential.

Luckily the birth rate is declining for numerous reasons, and we should be thanking our lucky stars we have access to education and our own bank accounts so we're not reliant on a moid for food and shelter.