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"Yes - I have personally experienced this attitude among many women.
yes - I have personally had many women say to me "how can you STAND IT? being with kids all day every day!" "

I knew a couple in Omaha who were the son-in-law and daughter of our then next door neighbor. Both of them worked before the woman got pregnant, and planned on doing so after she had her first child. She was about 23 when she gave birth, and my wife and I were stunned at the way she responded to being a new mother.

She appeared to intentionally keep distance between her and her baby daughter, constantly trying to hand the new baby off to others, allowing the child to cry for long periods of time without picking the baby up, never really paying one-to-one attention to the child even when the women was holding her.

She dumped the baby in daycare after six weeks. After about three months, despite the fact that they had no money troubles, the woman got a second job. She told her mother that she needed the job to get time away from the baby.

The child ended up spending about 10 hours a day in day care, then would go home for about an hour, and split time at night between the father's care and day care...again.

It seemed as if the woman intentionally tried to keep from a natural bonding with the baby because she knew that it would make it easier to put the child in day care if she didn't spend too much time with it after the birth. It was truly a sad thing to watch.

The child was about two years old when the woman divorced the father and decided to look for "something more" for her.

This woman was the product of a very liberal upbringing, and was very open, before she got pregnant, about her disdain for the typical burdens of parenting.

"The child was about two years old when the woman divorced the father and decided to look for "something more" for her.

This woman was the product of a very liberal upbringing, and was very open, before she got pregnant, about her disdain for the typical burdens of parenting."

she could have been depressed. I've seen women act like that when they suffered from postpartum depression.