At the young age of 16, Orna Donath knew with certainty that she would never be a mother. To Orna, this self-realization was not as extraordinary as society would want her to believe. To her, it was mundane. Just as common as choosing to become a mother. In the decades that followed she became a sociologist and author, producing thought-provoking research on women who regret motherhood along with those who chose to never have children at all. She joins us to share her own personal experience of the stigma societies place on women who choose to not mother as well as how we can begin the complex journey to untangle womanhood from motherhood.
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