Brett Cooper

Imagine if Emma and Mike actually did get married, she ended up regretting having the baby, didn't want to have children, then what happens to Mike?

Those three women in those stories, one of them is filing for divorce, one of them is wanting to give up custody to the father and just walk out.

It is devastating all around.

And all of this is the conversation that I wish The Cut had written about.

I wish they had written about it because it's important and it's relevant, but it would be a much more complicated and touchy thing to write about.

Not, I reject my children.

I want to have a lazy Saturday morning.

But why is this so hard?

Why are we making this so hard?

And why are we so alone in this?

That would be a much harder story to write.

It's very touchy.

It's convoluted.

And it's polarizing.

But that's actually a conversation that's important and is relevant.

Now, one of the fellows at the Institute for Family Studies, where I actually spoke last spring, I believe in Virginia, they wrote a beautiful follow-up to this article titled, New Mothers Who Are Struggling Need Support.

Not a spotlight.

And she wrote about the three mothers in that cut article.

She said, on top of their mental health struggles, which they openly describe, they also had traumatic entries into motherhood.

The first mother's baby had colic, which has a well-documented short-term impact on the mental health of mothers.