Joanna Pocock

The many contradictions of modern motherhood

Like a sensible friend with all the facts at her fingertips, Eliane Glaser addresses the conflicts of childbearing and provides reassurance

For most working mothers, childcare costs are simply unaffordable. Credit: Alamy 
issue 22 May 2021

There are few certainties in life. Death and taxes are the ones regularly trotted out. However, there is another that rarely gets mentioned: the fact that every single human who has ever existed has come out of a woman’s body. This act of creation, while being a marvel, has also become banal.

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