The industry's culture of perfectionism and the pressure to maintain an image prevents mothers from being honest about the daily struggles and anxiety of parenting.

“it's like we are so full of shit that you can't even say you know what I was really anxious before I got yeah yeah I was scared shitless and everybody what”

The cultural prioritization of pursuing long-term education and career development over family formation early in life creates significant challenges and limits the likelihood of becoming a parent.

“Why is it that we are educating our young people is great? telling them to get established on the career letter. Great. But we're completely silent on the fact that by the way, you very well might run out of time if you want a child.”