The comment about higher brain function really bothers me. You read a lot of stuff like that on secular parenting boards, usually in reference to stay-at-home motherhood. "My brain couldn't function at that low of a level all day" or to getting married young...which is for lower class people only.
I don't really understand the political reasons behind it, but at an even more basic level, isn't it just Satan pushing us further and further away from God? I mean, what a clever concept to lower the population. First we have the legality, availability, and promotion of birth control...which is a huge assault on the family. Then the new church promotes NFP as holy, which is nearly as bad. But now women who WANT to bear children are fed this idea that they are disordered because of it?? There are thousands of women who read these articles and convince themselves their instinctive and natural desire to be pregnant is wrong...at best a necessary evil.
I think even the cocktails with girlfriends has a deeper evil behind it. What do women do over martinis? Complain about their lives, husbands, responsibilities...
Yuck is right.