Some of you may be familiar with the French author's views on mothering and children. If not, I invite you to google.

This is an excellent rebuttal

Elisabeth Badinter

One of Badinter’s early books about feminism was called Fausse Route, or ‘Wrong Way’. In The Conflict: Woman and Mother, Badinter starts out in the dark place of parental ambivalence and, instead of heading for the light, ventures only deeper, drawing bogus lessons, even inspiration, from the killing fields of childhood.

Fausse route, indeed.