If you have a smothering parent, the effect it can apparently have on a child is to give them, in equal doses, a sense of too much self-esteem, because they are mummy's little princess or prince, and low self-esteem. It affects future relationships.

A society deadened by a smothering network of laws while finding release in moral chaos is not likely to be either happy or stable.

I had no idea that mothering my own child would be so healing to my own sadness from my childhood.

Whatever feminists may say about their only advocating choices everyone knows the truth: Feminism regards work outside the home as more elevating honorable and personally productive than full-time mothering and making a home.