"To regret being a mother."
This new
"taboo" of
which
"we dare not speak"
has, however, become a refrain in women's magazines for a few years now.
Articles and podcasts describing the supposed pangs of motherhood are flourishing.
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The question came back to the forefront on the occasion of the release of Stéphanie Thomas' book
Mal de Mothers
, published by Éditions JC Lattès, on October 6.
Following the sociologist Orna Donath, who published in 2015 a study called “Regretting motherhood”, the journalist collected ten testimonies from women who express their sorrow at having become mothers.
Behind these stories, an injunction to play down the feeling they experience.
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If these testimonies immediately arouse empathy, we will regret that they convey in spite of themselves an ideology which does not speak its name, and which wants that there is no possible fulfillment in motherhood.
Stéphanie Thomas recounts: “
Last year, (Clara) became aware of the unease that had plagued her since.
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