- Joined
- Jan 17, 2017
It also sucks for women who are childless not by choice whether they couldn't find a suitable husband or they are infertile among other reasons. A lot of them think that it is somehow their fault they are childless or people are like "Why don't you adopt?" without realizing how rigorous the approval process is as well as how expensive it is. Childless women in those communities are often forced to take care of their aging parents and younger siblings and often not treated like adults compared to married women. As for men, well, it reminds me of a quote Brigham Young said once in that unmarried men over the age of 25 are a menace to society and they are also infantilized and treated like lesser men for not having a wife.
The Bates’s oldest daughter gets treated this way. Poor gal is married but has some kind of fertility issues and they always seem so fucking condescending toward her.
Hell, she got her nursing license and was so proud of it and the rest of the family just offered a wishy-washy “that’s nice, congratulations” as if working hard and going into a profession that actively helps people is somehow less impressive than getting knocked up and shitting out 75 kids (which even methheads can do that).