"How is it possible that a mother can despise her own child? Despise means to undervalue. As much as adults may delight in children, we do tend to have a low opinion of them. How else is it possible for a mother to leave her precious children in the care of unconscientious care-givers during their most crucial years? Every act a child sees, or word he hears, leaves an impression in his mind in the same way that light leaves a permanent image on a roll of film. It isn't that a nurse [or daycare or babysitter?] is totally bad for a child; it is not always good for educated people to have their children around constantly. That might be too stimulating for the child, and the mother is more refreshed if she can enjoy time with other people, discussing things unrelated to children from time to time. But children should have their mother's best; her freshest, most alert time of day. The mother should also choose care-givers carefully, train them herself, and be vigilant about knowing what goes on while her children are in the care of someone else."
Charlotte Mason Volume I in Modern English

Reminds me of a quote I heard; "God bless the children, but keep them far from us!"

I'm not condemning working mothers or women who have chosen barrenness; I'm condemning our cultural attitude about children. I'm condemning a culture that thrives on devaluing what God values, and valuing what He abhors.

Isaiah 5:20-Woe to those who call evil good and good evil....

If our value system were Godly, we would value what the Lord values. Just one of the things that God values are children. He called them a blessing. Do you tell your children they are blessings from God?

Valuing our children affects how we interact with them. Most of us value our credit or debit card. It is valuable to us so we keep it in a safe place, we don't lend it out to strangers for hours at a time, or let friends and family take turns keeping it for a while. Our car is valuable. We keep in a garage to protect it from the elements, we don't let strangers test drive it, we don't rotate it amongst our friends and family.

Our culture has defined what is valuable.Things are valuable, people are not, and children are completely worthless. In the modern mind, children have absolutely no worth. Anyone will tell you that the only reason people had an average of 6-10 children a hundred years ago is because children were free labor. Children 100 years ago had a worth. But today, children have no worth. We don't "need" them. Abortion is rampant, legal, and communicates to our culture where children fit in the world. Children are optional, invaluable, and disposable.

We don't think it worthwhile to even raise them. We think that strangers (professionals) could do as good a job if not better, and we commit tiny children into the care of perfect strangers out of our eyesight for 8 and 10 hours a day. And we value children? We don't even do that to our car, let a lone our debit card! But we do it to our children.