Mandatory Motherhood/Playing With


 * Basic Trope: A character does not want kids, but society expects her (or him) to anyway.
 * Played Straight: Alice's mother constantly gives her the I Want Grandkids speech. Alice has no interest in carrying, birthing, or raising children.
 * Exaggerated: Alice is getting this from everyone including her gynecologist
 * Justified: Alice is living After the End, and reproduction is encouraged because the world is getting to Adam and Eve Plot population levels.
 * Alice lives in a world where it's Mate or Die
 * Alice's Blue Blood husband Bob needs an heir, especially a male heir
 * Inverted: My Biological Clock Is Ticking
 * Alice wants kids, but her society is discouraging her from breeding (for whatever reason(s)).
 * Subverted: Alice starts to ponder the possibility of having a baby.
 * Alice already has a child, and Bob discusses the possibility of having another one.
 * Double Subverted: But then decides that it's not for her and probably never will be.
 * Alice and Bob decide they don't want any more children.
 * Deconstructed: Alice is being pressured to do something very life-changing (and costly in terms of time, effort, and money) that she doesn't want to do.
 * Reconstructed: Alice learns not to let others tell her what to do (or not do) regarding reproduction. She shows the naysayers that she leads a happy and productive life even without children.
 * Zig Zagged: Some are pressured to procreate, others are not.
 * Parodied: Alice passes through the park, which is full of happy families.
 * Lampshaded: "You know, Alice, having a child is a wonderful thing, which is why you will have one."
 * Averted: Alice doesn't catch any flack for not having or wanting kids (or more kids.)
 * Invoked: "What? You don't want children? HOW DARE YOU, YOU FEMINIST SELFISH BITCH??!!! AREN'T YOU ASHAMED??"
 * Defied: Alice decides she'll be childfree no matter what anyone else thinks.
 * Discussed: "I just don't think having children is for me. It's great that you have a purpose in your kids, but I don't think that's my calling."
 * Conversed: "Why does it even matter whether Alice wants kids or not?"
 * Played For Laughs: "I don't want kids. Never have, never will." Gilligan Cut to Alice and Bob happily raising 10 kids.
 * Played For Drama: Alice is being taken by a Mad Scientist or evil government to be forcibly used as a Baby Factory.

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