Kristina Ozturk is a 24-year-old mother from Batumi, Georgia. She and her husband have had 20 babies in the last year through surrogates. She loves babies and says that she would love to have 100 babies. She and her millionaire husband, Galip, who is 57-years-old around R2.8 million on caring for their babies in the last two months alone.
As children head back for an uncertain school year, Dr. Anthony Fauci joins Times journalists for a vital Q. and A. for parents, educators and students everywhere.
Motherhood isn’t on the decline so much as motherhood is delayed, and families with one or two children are ascendant.
Thanks to feminist cultural shifts, and better access to contraceptives, more women now approach childbearing the same way we approach other major life decisions: as a choice weighed against other desires, assessed in context. Without compulsory childbearing, this assessment continues throughout women’s childbearing years. The 24-year-old who says she wants children someday but is focusing on her career can easily turn into the 30-year-old who says she wants children but with the right partner. Later, she can easily become the 45-year-old who has a meaningful career, a community of people she feels connected to and a life rich in pleasure and novelty that she doesn’t want to surrender. Likewise, a mother sold in theory on three children might discover her family is complete with two, or one. Is that a woman who had fewer children than she intended? Or is she s
Parenthood is one of the most broadly shared human experiences. The needs and challenges are (broadly) well known and (generally) follow an established pattern, yet new parents still stumble through the journey as if they were the first to do so. How, in 2021, can this still be?