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Are you saying that these women subconsciously set the bar for being a good mother unreasonably high by judging their own behavior worse than it is, and thus signal a superior ability to care for a child to the other mothers?

Couldn't it instead rather be signaling to conforming to the modern idea that child raising is an oh so important task?

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Child rearing was always considered an important task. The particulars have changed over the years, but the idea isn't new at all.

I don't think it's so much that women are subconsciously setting the bar too high. Rather, as in any competition the level of the bar gets set in the aggregate. Some combination of the media and their social circle.

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