> “the story of growing up female in America that’s like, you can be and do anything,” says one mother of six who decided to become a stay-at-home mom after completing her medical residency.
In USA, the taxpayer foots $100,000 to $150,000 at the beginning of each residency. That’s Congressionally limited and it means her choice removed one doctor from practice. That is damage we don’t get from another mother of six with no prospects of a career. This article has several other incorrect premises.
These folks are a vocal minority seeking an audience for their belief system.
https://www.axios.com/2024/07/25/adults-no-children-why-pew-...
> 47% of adults under 50 without kids say they're unlikely to have them — up 10 percentage points from 2018.
> Of those who said they're unlikely to have children, 57% said "they just don't want to."
> 64% of young women say they just don't want children, compared to 50% of men.
> "Maybe what ails us is not our freedom per se, but something we mistake for freedom—being detached from family obligations"
> "College, medical school, law school, and the like (...) just eat up childbearing years"
> "Pakaluk seems to wish she could sit down with all the ambitious young women at top colleges and dissuade them from what she and her subjects see as a devastating lie"
TLDR: freedom is slavery, ignorance is strength.
Working for an uncaring corporation is freedom, caring for your family is slavery.