Writer's Block: Go it alone

[eumelia]

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Yes.

Very obvious and self-explanatory question.

If you don't have children you're not a "real woman".
You have to be a "real woman" in order to be a Mother.
If you're single, you're a failure anyway.

Being child-free is a kind of scarlet letter on your social standing - you're refusing to contribute to the human race, refusing to be a responsible adult and all that junk.

*sigh*

The answer to all those questions (thought the holiday part is ambiguous) is "Yes".

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[starlady38.livejournal.com]

My relatives take a very...not dim, but instrumentalized, view of education. My grandfather said to me, when I mentioned that I was arms-deep in applications, that I'd already gone to school, why did I want to go back? They think I should have tried to get a corporate-type job somewhere.

ETA: And they seem to think I'm a bit weird for being single and not desperate to be in a relationship. They thought the same about my sister when she was single, too. This is all partly geographic in nature--my extended family are from the Midwest, while my nuclear family are from the East Coast, and our attitudes about a lot of things cleave along those lines.