I wrote about why I find most of the fertility discourse irritating: Daycare blows, tax credits do not make up for lifelong career harm, and "status" can't be separated from economic reality.
We need to make motherhood RATIONAL, not merely bearable. Some highlights 🔽
Sarah Haider argues that pronatalist policy talk often dodges the real economic tradeoffs of motherhood. Her core point is that cheaper daycare, tax credits, and status-signaling rhetoric don't solve the main deterrent: long-run career and lifestyle loss. The attached image appears to be a promo card for her essay/newsletter post, titled 'Motherhood Is Not Rational,' framing the problem as making motherhood economically rational rather than merely more tolerable.
