Listening to the commentariat reacting to the infant-formula shortage in America earlier this month, it struck me just how unbearably complicated it is to be a woman in our secular world.
I was interested to see men and women, some who weren’t even parents, commenting on how women ought to feed their children. There were those who said the formula shortage was a good thing because it might force women to breastfeed, and there were those who said women need formula because it empowers them to go back to work and have their bodies to themselves again. A “feminist” I follow on social media, who is proud to have not had children out of choice, came out vociferously in favour of the latter viewpoint – another expert on child-rearing comes out of the woodwork.
