Eliane Glaser: Parenting is an imperfect business, learned on the job - The Guardian 25th February 2008

It's still taboo for women to express mixed feelings about motherhood, but many don't find the idyll they'd been led to expect Over the centuries, religion, literature and popular culture have worked tirelessly to promote motherhood as an ideal. Today, endless media stories about infertility ratchet up the pressure on women: twentysomethings who delay having children are told they risk "heartbreak". Images of happy mums are everywhere: think of the Spice Girls on stage singing Mama to their breakdancing progeny.

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