Jessica Grose on the Unsustainable Pressure of American Motherhood

A podcast deep dive into the ways cultural ideals of motherhood are uniquely absurd, with New York Times opinion writer Jessica Grose.

Motherhood is an image, sold to us, about what it’s supposed to look like and feel like. But is the ideal imagery of motherhood true? Or is the picture above laughably far from the truth? And if so, why do we keep selling this image and idea?