The anger and exasperation we occasionally feel towards our children are completely normal but remain taboo, writes NellFrizzell
It’s been nearly 30 years since Rozsika Parker dared to write about “the malice, the hostility, the exasperation, the fury and dislike [mothers] feel – maybe only for a fleeting moment – towards their own children,” in her bookAnd yet, in those 30 years, have we really become any closer to allowing women to actually explore those ambivalent feelings in a constructive and healthy way? I’m not so sure.
A woman cradling a six-month-old baby to her breast has the capacity to feel exactly the same kind of rage as a 17 stone kickboxer who wants to join the Army; as a six-foot football fan who drinks six pints on a Saturday and punches someone outside a chip shop. Mothers have so much to be angry about. There are the big things, of course. The systematic shortfall in childcare provision, shared parental leave, affordable housing and supportive workplaces have pushed women into a state of anger that could, genuinely, be avoided if we chose to value people over profit.
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