If they made us a transfer for all the times a woman has been questioned about when she will have children, our account would be saturated. And it is that although it seems super easy for us not to get involved in the decisions of others, there are people who live in the Stone Age and do not conceive that a woman can be completely happy without having offspring.
The list of women who have been judged for not wanting to be mothers is joined by Maria Thattil, Miss Universe Australia 2020, who was criticized for declaring that she is not interested in getting pregnant, as she prefers to continue growing professionally. This simple comment earned her a large number of opinions, and although they were mostly positive, there was a small percentage of followers who lashed out at her in a negative way, which did not fall in favor with the model.
It was because of these “experts” in other people’s lives that the makeup artist also took the time to write a column to Stellar Magazinein which, exceptionally, she responds to the most common criticism that surely all those who do not want to have children have received.
Maria, 29, began with a phrase worthy of becoming the motto of the “Childfree” movement, because, in a few words, it hits the nail on the head of what many of us think when others threaten our freedom to make bodily decisions autonomously. . Drumroll:
Not only is it okay not to aspire to parenthood, it’s your human right.
Another argument that they made to him was the one that refers to loneliness, since many still think that one should have children only to obtain company slaves. Faced with this outdated reasoning, the beauty queen said she felt sorry for those who think this way, because it is extremely sad that her reasons for becoming parents are so hollow and lacking in love.
When people threaten me with the fear of loneliness in my near future, I tell them that their decision to have children just to have someone by their side when they are old and sick scares me and pity them. Children deserve to be raised by parents who can selflessly raise them. I would really hate to bring someone else into the world and project my own unhealed traumas onto them.