Great American article (ie English) which I recommend reading. Published in 2006 in the magazine Glamour he decries this mode of pregnancy can be dangerous: Infertile in a Baby-Crazed World .
I have already discussed in previous notes that any idealization of motherhood in the media, but let me deal at greater length here. If you've never paid attention to this media phenomenon, let me help you with some examples of magazine covers that I found on the Internet. And this is just the tip of the iceberg ...
Alors qu'en est-il des femmes sans enfant dans les médias? « Angelina Jolie adopte son 27e enfant! », titrent les journaux. Une semaine après: « Photos nues de Madonna enceinte ». Plus près de nous, Caroline Néron pose en couverture, the belly ready to burst. The next week we will have to choose: Is it a "baby bump" one sees on Jennifer Lopez? "Britney Spears is expecting her third child. Who is the father? "Guillaume Lemay-Thivierge Mariloup Wolfe and expecting a baby!" The tabloids seem to have set their sights on the reproductive system of stars. This is the mad rush to babies in Quebec as much as Hollywood. But where are the stars who dare to appear childfree?
Not to mention that motherhood according to some is a way to redeem himself. When has-been ex-addicts become mom make the cover of magazines as a model, I have serious questions about the future of our society! When other magazines we suggest to stay lean (not thin!) Lorsqu'enceinte, I think we are far from the feminism of the 70s! And do not tell me about "Octo Mom" ...
media idealize motherhood. Everywhere one sees it. I'll spare you the number of images found on the Internet of pregnant women, beaming, grinning from ear to ear ... (Really, have fun on Google Images!)
What is the last time you recall seeing a woman in her thirties or forties with no children on TV without it being portrayed as a old daughter as a barren woman or sad? Oh, I remember: Samantha in Sex and the Cit y. Indeed, we see no children and most importantly, no desire for children, but we see also caricatured as all children found boring and prefer the pleasure of the flesh for a life more seriously. I doubt that all women not wanting to have children is as frivolous, rich and ... sex than Samantha.
According Isabelle Tilmant, author and psychologist, the notion of maternal love is born in the eighteenth century. Since the establishment of Mother's Day, American invention dating from 1914, many childless women feel excluded by this festival as celebrated. The "showers" for babies and congratulations from all sides are rigor when a woman announces she is pregnant. In the microcosm of family is becoming mother that really becomes an adult. The ads send us images of strong families, happy and terribly idealized who demoralizes more than when she realizes that her family is not as pink as those seen on all advertisements.
dint of positive reinforcement, every woman wants to be a superwoman. It makes us believe that it is possible to have everything: love life, personal development, child (ren), stimulating work, travel, friends, money, being a mom caring and available, lover, sexy and good about yourself, etc.. This stereotype conveyed by many stars (with the help of several nanny, coaches, drivers ...) makes us believe that being a mother means being everything at once and that every woman can be like her. This myth also repelled by some.
For children, we do not ask the question "If you have a child one day, how will it be called?" But "when you have a child, you gonna call it how? "It prepares the next generation to be parents, which is not harmful in itself but provides does one choose alternatives life? That's why I'm doing a documenaire on non-parents, to give hope to many women who see only one possible model: that is to be a mother.
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