Women’s relationship to children - even whether or not to have them to begin with - is still the source of widespread judgement in modern society.

Even now, with a dramatic shift in the topography of how we live, motherhood is often viewed as the default option by many people.

This is true both in real life and on-screen.

“Women without children tend to be portrayed in the media in two ways: either emotionally driven by maternity (think of Top of the Lake’s Robin, hallucinating her miscarried babies), or childless vixens lacking some basic ability to love and be loved,” writer and producer Tracy King tells Stylist.

“The things about my life I value most are things I would have to sacrifice to have children, a sacrifice for a benefit that I don’t feel is missing. I’m not short of love, or company, or ambition, and I’ve never noticed any biological clock or tugging desire to reproduce my genes.

“Yet because procreation is seen as a public duty, it’s apparently OK to grill a woman on the state of her uterus or mental health, digging to find what’s wrong with us – because surely something must be.”

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