Let us watch societal pressures on childless women
It is often said that culture is not a thing to part with but surely, there are certain cultural and societal norms that need to be thrown out of the window in this 21st Century enlightened world.
Pressures of childlessness
The pressures emanating from some of our beliefs and practices as a result of cultural and societal beliefs are deadly. They should not be given any value in our thinking forward. Childlessness and all the tags associated with it is one such belief.
Nothing breaks one’s heart more than to see or hear a young woman lose her life through pregnancy and child birth complications. It is even more heart-wrenching when that woman is an accomplished hardworking individual who was at the prime of her service to mankind.
When the loss is as a result of needless pressures or expectations from societal and culturally misplaced demands, the heartbreak gets even devastating. And so my heart was in pieces last week when I read the unfort