In defense of non-motherhood

A friend who has two young boys and a useless husband, tells me that nobody has any idea what motherhood means: "the total extent of its colonialisation." Hey, if we didn't need kids to propagate the race, what use are they? And why are women saddled with raising them? Why can't they all be sent to boarding school? Why can't they be raised in groups, like troops, by paid experts, like teachers, 24/7/365?
Why are children and mothers so sanctified? Thesis: because being a mother is the shittiest job in the universe (unpaid, too), and being a kid is a complete irritation to any grownup with half a brain. I don't have kids, and I've always felt slightly less human because of it, but my life has never been empty. Maybe purposeless, but not empty.
From k-punk: "The 'working mother' is the figure around which many bio-political configurations are organized. The 'working mother' gives a new spin to the Hegelian formula, that 'woman is the eternal irony of the community'. The idea was that women's labor was essential to the reproduction of the polis, but that women remained outside the community proper, double agents, never fully assimilable into civil society. 'Female-friendly' legislation rests on a number of assumptions; the most pernicious is the unargued view that the 'best' (='most natural') way for a child to be reared is in a private domestic space by its female parent."