A woman who does not bear children is a woman who will never stay home and provide unremunerated care. She is less likely to be held in the domestic zone and extend her caregiving to elderly relatives or the children of others. She cannot be a resource that undergirds a male partner\u2019s career, frailties, time limitations and social demands.<\/p>\n
A mother is an option, a floating worker, the joker in the pack. Not mothering creates a hole for that \u201cfree\u201d service, which societies increasingly arranged around nuclear families and poorly subsidised rights depend on. The lack of parental leave, childcare and elderly care would become profoundly visible \u2013 \u201cdisorienting and disturbing\u201d \u2013 if that service were removed.<\/p>\n
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