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Seed Without Romance

On Marriage, Motherhood, & Reproductive Clarity

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Lotus Che
Jan 26, 2026
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It is considered impolite for a woman to admit that she married in order to have children. The admission is taken as evidence of coldness, or worse, calculation, as though reproduction were not itself a serious moral undertaking, or as though marriage had ever been organized solely around love. What offends is not the strategy. It is the refusal to disg…

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