Betty Rollin Research

Being a mother is the most common job in the world, an also the hardest job at the same time. There are woman that dream their entire life about becoming a mother and raising her children. They love the idea of their child growing right in their stomachs and being able to care for them. Motherhood can be an amazing thing. I have met people who think so much about having children one day and raising them well. It is amazing to think about how woman have the ability to create a human right inside of them. There are also woman who do not want to have kids and the thought of having kids never crosses their minds. I have met other woman who do not have any intention of having children. They do not want children, cannot afford any, and simply do …show more content…
“And studies indicate that a human baby will also respond to whoever is playing mother- even if its father.” This shows that it is not always the mother that has to do the raising. It is always assumed that the mother is responsible for raising the child and caring for it, but the baby will respond to either mother or father, therefore the mother does not always have to be the one to care for the child. Mothers are supposed to be caretaker while the father is responsible for bringing in the money. I do not agree with that. I think it should be both mother and father should raise together and bring in money together. Things should be worked for as a team and not an individual. “A similar study showed that monkeys brought up without other monkeys of the opposite sex had no interest in mating- all of which suggests that both mothering and mating behaviors are learned, not instinctual.” This shows that woman are taught to want to have children and not because they want to themselves. Since the beginning, woman have been expected to have children and have been taught at a young age about having them. There are many woman that may not have children if they were never taught …show more content…
“Thanks to the Motherhood Myth- the idea that having babies is something that all normal woman instinctively want and need and will enjoy doing- they just think they do.” Woman think they have to have children but they do not have to if they choose not to. This myth is accurate, to me, because it seems like the only reason woman have children is because they think they have to have them. If people did not expect woman to have children, then maybe the planet would not be over populated. “Woman don’t need to be mothers any more than they need spaghetti.” Having children is not something anybody HAS to do, but is a choice. It is not a necessity in life like food, water, and