Women's magazines sadly remark that children can have a disruptive effect on the conjugal relationship, that the young wife's involvement with her ch… - Germaine Greer
" "Women's magazines sadly remark that children can have a disruptive effect on the conjugal relationship, that the young wife's involvement with her children and her exhaustion can interfere with her husband's claims on her. What a notion- a family that is threatened by its children! Contraception has increased the egotism of the couple: planned children have a pattern to fit into; at least unplanned children had some of the advantages of contingency. First and foremost they were whether their parents liked it or not. In the limited nuclear family the parents are the principals and children are theirs to manipulate in a newly purposive way. The generation gap is being intensified in these families where children must not inconvenience their parents, where they are disposed of in special living quarters at special times of day, their own rooms and so forth. Anything less than this is squalor. Mother must not have more children than she can control: control means full attention for much of the day, then isolation.
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About Germaine Greer
Germaine Greer (born 29 January 1939) is an Australian author, academic, critic and journalist.
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The point of an organic family is to release the children from the
disadvantages of being the extensions of their parents so that they
can belong primarily to themselves. They may accept the services
that adults perform for them naturally without establishing dependencies.
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and define the mode and extent of their own learning. They might
come to resent their own strangeness but in other circumstances
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children seize upon their parents and their upbringing to serve as
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