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Should I have a child? Canadian author Sheila Heti asks herself this question in her autobiographical novel Motherhood (2018). Over three hundred pages, she examines the arguments for and against. Heti considers whether she wants to become a mother at all to be her biggest secret, which she hides even from herself. On the one hand, she thinks of the joy that children give their parents, and on the other, of the freedom of not having children.
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Toepfer, R. (2022). Ethics: Ideals of Life with (In)Fertility. In: Infertility in Medieval and Early Modern Europe. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-08977-0_6
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