Enough is too much. I just like quoting that from Happy Feet, but I had to include this here.
It's a news report about "Competitive Birthing", where women are competing with other women in the number of children they have and the report speaks of it as a status symbol.
Many of the mothers are working and are paying for the children's education, home care, potty training, and the like. And it even speaks of a $15,000 activity budget!!
Here's a quote from the article and you can click below to hear the news story fron NPR.
The newest status symbol for the nation's most affluent families is fast becoming a big brood of kids.
Historically, the country-club set has had the smallest number of kids. But in the past 10 years, the number of high-end earners who are having three or more kids has shot up nearly 30 percent.
Some say the trend is driven by a generation of over-achieving career women who have quit work and transferred all of their competitive energy to baby making.
They call it "competitive birthing."
Hear the news report here.
To contrast a bad perspective on it, here's a good story! A family who sees children the way we should!
2 comments:
Everything old is new again - a 12-kid family was a status symbol in the Victorian age too. (As was an idle wife, incidentally - a rich man could afford to have a wife who does nothing but fancy needlework - even the task of raising the kids could be farmed out to the servants. Those were the days, eh?)
I like the idea of promoting motherhood and childbearing, but this is reallly over the top! Thanks for some interesting food for thought. :~)
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