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[quote=Anonymous]I think it's true that people do project what they're afraid of, particularly the example PP gave about women being left and not prepared to be on their own.  In the other direction, people project the "when do you ever see your kids?" issue because that's what they're afraid of.

In a broader sense, most mothers work outside the home and we're all conditioned to be suspicious of what goes against the grain.  We want to believe that if it's as great or fun or whatever as people say it is, *everyone* would be doing it, and so we tell a story that there must be something people are hiding or missing or whatever and we wan to ferret it out.  Similarly, most people find their jobs to be kind of a grind, so when we hear that people love theirs so much they would never give it up even if they were super wealthy, we're suspicious and want to get at "the truth."  Really people are different, and some people go against the norm and that works for them.  (You could apply this to the breastfeeding thing, too: most people formula feed at least partially in the first year and hardly anyone nurses past one, so it's very countercultural to do so.)[/quote]

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