Ancient wisdom, as stated by Clarissa Pinkola Estes in her treaty-book "Women who run with the wolves: Myths and Stories of the Wild Women Archetype" determined that a first-time mother would receive support from a network of other women in the community. Today, she is supposed to be supported enthusiastically by her spouse. In a heterosexual couple, we have a father who has not been trained historically to perform as a hands-on baby/child caretaker. For the last 5000 years, since men discovered their sperm was necessary for the woman to bear a child, they have been doing everything they can to make women forget they once were worshipped as goddesses for precisely giving life to baby humans. The feminine and the masculine paradoxes Women, as a female collective, have been so dominated by the traditionally man-managed institutions that control Estate, Religion, Education and everything else, that today we have abandoned the essence of the goddess, the giver of life,...
Random insights of a woman living in a small community. Anonymity serves to tell-all while morphing under life pressures. Her name is Nora and she writes what many are thinking but no one articulates.