Rama Brew with daughter Michelle Attoh
Veteran actress, Rama Brew, has asked young mothers not to allow themselves to be pressured to give birth to multiple children without adequately planning for them.
“So if you are a young mother that has just got married, and you have one child, what is the hurry to have a second, and a third, and a fourth when you are not financially stable enough to carry that burden?” she asked.
Rama, who was speaking in an interview on ‘Today’s Woman’, hosted by her daughter Michelle Attoh on TV3 on Mother’s Day, was not happy about the pressure put on mothers over having children.
According to her, “Having a child is a 20-year project and beyond. So if you have a first child, it will be wise to save your money, have that child, prepare and lay the foundation for future children. When you have them back to back, who are you going to blame? I mean, then, you are stretching yourself thin. The children will get sick if they are not eating well. They will be stressed out depending on the dynamics between your husband and yourself. It is a mote of the bomb that is going to explode.”
According to her, young mothers get stressed because they are trying to please too many people. They begin to lose themselves, and unfortunately, it’s the children that bear the brunt of it. Rama Brew restated that until you are ready for marriage or children, do not go in for it.