Being a mother
A major change in our attitude towards motherhood took place in Ireland over the past 60 years or so, and we hardly noticed it.
Mothering was once honoured as a service to the nation, indeed, as the most important service any person could give.
Giving birth, caring for and educating children was rightly recognised as women’s most fundamental and noble contribution to the community, securing our continued existence, future well-being and peace.
We organised society to respect and support mothers in their wonderful task. That meant, for example, protecting marriage and the family as the best place in which this great responsibility could be fulfilled.
It also meant that tax laws and family supports were geared towards encouraging and enabling mothers to remain in the home caring for their children.
The system had many flaws and failures, having been made by sinful and inadequate human beings. But progress meant improving the situation to provide better support for mothers.
Private hobby
Today, however, motherhood is no longer seen as a service to the people deserving our support, but as a private, self-fulfilling hobby that some women engage in.
If they neglect or abandon a career to care for children at home, well, that’s just a lifestyle choice they made, and they needn’t expect admiration or sympathy from the rest of us.
Indeed, the best we can do for mothers is to help, or even pressure, them back into the work force as soon as possible; return them to valuable, productive work in the economic machine!
Wide acceptance of the nonsense that a mother and father, complementing each other, can be replaced by two men shows how deep our scorn for motherhood has become.
But the ultimate contempt is when the political elite declare that they couldn’t care less what mothers do with their children in the first months of their lives, love them or kill them, particularly those that are imperfect.
Disordered view
It is remarkable that so many Irish women have been persuaded to accept this profoundly disordered and vile view of motherly care; that they have allowed their greatest dignity and most wonderful capacity to be devalued so radically.
None of this “just happened”, of course. It was engineered by the political establishment. Successive governments, for example, funded the gullible National Women’s Council to promote the corrupt agenda.
Behind the debasing of motherhood lies a perverted feminist ideology, one based on a deeply twisted, Marxist understanding of feminine dignity, indeed, of human dignity.
But if we want to remedy the situation we first need to recognise how big the crisis is.
Mothering was once honoured as a service to the nation, indeed, as the most important service any person could give.
Giving birth, caring for and educating children was rightly recognised as women’s most fundamental and noble contribution to the community, securing our continued existence, future well-being and peace.
We organised society to respect and support mothers in their wonderful task. That meant, for example, protecting marriage and the family as the best place in which this great responsibility could be fulfilled.
It also meant that tax laws and family supports were geared towards encouraging and enabling mothers to remain in the home caring for their children.
The system had many flaws and failures, having been made by sinful and inadequate human beings. But progress meant improving the situation to provide better support for mothers.
Private hobby
Today, however, motherhood is no longer seen as a service to the people deserving our support, but as a private, self-fulfilling hobby that some women engage in.
If they neglect or abandon a career to care for children at home, well, that’s just a lifestyle choice they made, and they needn’t expect admiration or sympathy from the rest of us.
Indeed, the best we can do for mothers is to help, or even pressure, them back into the work force as soon as possible; return them to valuable, productive work in the economic machine!
Wide acceptance of the nonsense that a mother and father, complementing each other, can be replaced by two men shows how deep our scorn for motherhood has become.
But the ultimate contempt is when the political elite declare that they couldn’t care less what mothers do with their children in the first months of their lives, love them or kill them, particularly those that are imperfect.
Disordered view
It is remarkable that so many Irish women have been persuaded to accept this profoundly disordered and vile view of motherly care; that they have allowed their greatest dignity and most wonderful capacity to be devalued so radically.
None of this “just happened”, of course. It was engineered by the political establishment. Successive governments, for example, funded the gullible National Women’s Council to promote the corrupt agenda.
Behind the debasing of motherhood lies a perverted feminist ideology, one based on a deeply twisted, Marxist understanding of feminine dignity, indeed, of human dignity.
But if we want to remedy the situation we first need to recognise how big the crisis is.
