Miserable mums are kidding themselves

GEN-Z popstar Chappell Roan, 27, says all her friends who have children are “in hell” and she doesn’t know “anyone who is happy with children at her age”.

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She continues: “I literally have not met anyone with young kids who has, like, light in their eyes, anyone who has slept.”

I gave birth to my first child at 24 and my second at 27. I was slightly shellshocked at first. In the first flush of post-partum responsibility, I dreamed my own mother showed up and took the baby under her wing, announcing: “I’m the mother. I’m in charge.”