We celebrate the birth of the baby, and rightly so. But the birth of the mother may get lost in the shuffle. Part of that birth, or rebirth, I suppose, has to do with a fairly sweeping reorganization not only of one s home and personal routine, but psychically as well. This is something that happens in a multitude of ways, some large, small. Almost all of these freedoms conflict with a lifestyle that centers on young children.
Women feel a pull to be the primary parent or caregiver.
You are suspicious of the attempt to rid ourselves of this yearning. Yes cautious, I suppose I d say. This is not simply the result of some kind of false consciousness, but the end product of hundreds of thousands of years of evolutionary adaptation. We need to respect that, at this point in our history , this is actually part of our nature as long as we remember that our nature is not some static quantity but a set of adaptations, always in flux. Change is not only possible, it is inevitable.