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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]...Why am I even jumping in to this?

Oh, because I was a broke single young mom.

Look, I don't think OP was particularly condescending. She acknowledges that these are good moms trying their best. It IS damn difficult to face the world and raise your child when the world is trying so very, very hard to tell you you're garbage, and I can think of so many ways I tried to over-compensate as a result.

Plus, my access to care of any kind seemed so damn tenuous, and like one dismissal was going to doom us to not being able to survive. That zeal for research felt absolutely necessary to me. So yeah, it doesn't surprise me that OP sees this attitude within this particular demographic. [/quote]
This is one of the only rational posts on this thread.

People tend to feel disadvantaged and frustrated when they're not able to control their lives. Add to this being a young woman (and/or minority), and a mother, and the anxiety ratchets up. A common response to high levels of anxiety is to overcompensate and try to control everything in your environment.

Combine that dynamic with an expensive, fragmented, and paternalistic health care system, high rates of burnout for doctors, and suddenly it's easy to imagine this phenomenon.[/quote]

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