MOther

Being mother is the most natural thing in the world Or so it seems Yet the demands on women with children have rarely been as overloaded and contradictory as they are in todays Western world Promises of happiness are often followed by disadvantages excessive demands and feelings of guilt The mother has become an artificially glorified ideal which nevertheless is often legitimized by the nature of the woman We live in a time when three people could claim to be the same childs mother egg donors give their genes to beget children surrogate mothers deliver babies which they give away immediately after birth and men raise children by themselves without a woman at their side Hence the question arises What makes a human being a real mother