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A Point of View: The Child Question

07/05/2021

The Child Question

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Zoe Strimpel on the binary choice of motherhood.

Zoe Strimpel reflects on the 'paralysis of ambivalence' in relation to motherhood.

Zoe Strimpel on the difficulty of deciding whether to have, or not have, children.  

She describes the 'paralysis of ambivalence'.  But this ambivalence is surely, she writes, 'a natural response to the idea of setting in train the most unknowable outcome on earth'.

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