Maybe I should clarify something, after a brief but huffy discussion with DrBob: if he thought I was saying that all women have to be mothers, some of you all might have heard it that way too. But no, that’s not what I meant.
I didn’t mean to imply that all women want to or should have kids, not at all. Of course there are women, in Germany as well as everywhere else, who simply don’t want to be moms, and there’s nothing wrong with that. But it’s nowhere near 30%. I’m arguing for the women who do want to have kids, but are not given the option, for whatever reason, and then get called lazy for it.
That’s all.
alala 
May 11th, 2006 at 15:19
I didn’t get that at all- the “everyone has to be a mother thing”.
May 11th, 2006 at 19:32
no, me neither-didnt catch it or need the clarification. however, thank you.
May 11th, 2006 at 19:53
Well gee, I didn’t think I was saying that, but it’s what DrBob heard. We have, um, issues around the whole having babies thing, maybe that’s why.