golden uterus syndrome

When a biological mother thinks, by virtue of her pregnancy, that she knows what is best for a child, and is entitled to sympathy (i.e., acts martyrly) because of the pain she went through, disregarding the fact that raising a child requires many more years of work and is usually a team effort. They will often diminish the contributions by (ex-)husbands or their child(ren)’s step parents. Their labor pains are also used to excuse bad parenting, as though a few months of bringing a child to term is somehow on par with raising a child to adulthood.