On Mother’s Day, public media cheers parenting-as-self-actualization. It’s all about you, adults!
Narrated by Jared Moore
Art by Daniel Medina
Text published 05/11/26:
NPR: Happy One-Parent Day!
A few weeks ago, NPR ran a 36-minute segment titled, “Many women don’t want kids. And for good reason,” examining questions like, “What do child-free adults — or especially child-free women — symbolize politically?” The segment decried the “panic” and “stigma” of a society pressuring women to have children, especially among “religious” and “socially conservative” groups who believe having children is “sort of a core part of being human,” something one just does, like “cooking” or “going to church.”
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