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...think she loved you? I think that my mother was not a maternal woman. She shouldn't have had children. Has it ever occurred to you that until the happy advent of birth control there were women with no maternal instinct whatsoever who would have up to ten children because that's what women did? What a nightmare...
...that her nature? No. She had a bad breakdown when she found that she was stuck on the farm [in Rhodesia]. She turned into this self-pitying woman who started to live through her children. All my friends' mothers were appalling women. They had nothing in their lives - of course, husbands are just something you look after...
...three children...
...want them? Look, I'm talking about the Second World War when all girls said, "Oh no, I'm not going to bring another child into this horrible world," but then instantly had children. And I hear girls saying, "Oh I'm not going to bring a child into this wicked world," which means they are going to be pregnant next week. I don't think that our destinies are ruled by what we want...
...says. Furthermore, their behavior doesn't appear to be a response to an unhealthy upbringing, nor correlate to psychopathology. Researchers have a long way to go to understand the phenomenon, but it seems clear that the desire manifests early in life. "When they were playing cowboys and Indians as children," Mirich says of the BDSMers he interviewed, "they liked to be the person who was tied to the tree...