Girls are eventually handed a doll which to many is an innocent present Rollin perceives it as an act to innate motherliness (Rollin pg 5 paragraph 4). As women grow older they begin to use these “lessons taught by their mother who play their first teacher” (Rollin pg 5 paragraph 5) in the “real” world. However Dr. Richards Rabkin feels that women only desire children because everyone else in the world has a baby. Rabkin compares motherhood to spaghetti saying a “women doesn't need to be a mother anymore then they need spaghetti...But if you're in a world where everyone is eating spaghetti, thinking they need it and want it, you will think so too “ Motherhood has been enforced on women unconsciously by society they have developed a method in order to continue in a never ending cycle that is motherhood. Dating it back to when a girl is born the way the parent talk to them sets them out for what society has deemed as a normal woman's life. Rollin has brought this logic into light from questioning baby talk to the influences of other women in a young girl's …show more content…
Several critics may believe that Betty Rollin was not effective when she wrote “A women is not only taught by society to have a child; she is taught to have a child who will have a child” because many would argue that in certain cases daughters rebel and refuse to live under the standards placed by society. However the reality if the matter is that possibly one out of ten women turn out to rebel against society. These women who decide motherhood isn't for them are categorized under feminism and are then looked on as less than normal people. Over the years the word feminist or feminism has been associated with a negative connotation. Therefore many young women attempt to stay away from the stereotypical forms of a feminist.Rollin has been able to successfully underline all the issues in society and the way they treat women. Although before society was more public