Interesting that the stigma is so recent, and it appears it is largely self-inflicted: I got the impression that it is mainly the women themselves who choose to

Interesting that the stigma is so recent, and it appears it is largely self-inflicted: I got the impression that it is mainly the women themselves who choose to hold their "failure" quiet, and not some outside moral authority (though of course societal expectations silently drive the reclusiveness response). Fore more thinking on a very related subject, I warmly recommend this talk about the metaphysics of pregancy: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=COZEansw_Ts https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=COZEansw_Ts