India, May 9 -- For generations, the image of a good mother has been inseparable from the image of a woman who gave everything up. Her ambitions, her time, her identity, all quietly surrendered at the altar of motherhood, and framed as love, but this was never a written rule. It was absorbed through observation, reinforced through guilt, and passed down so consistently that it stopped looking like a choice and started looking like the natural order of things.

Gen Z mothers are the first generation, in large numbers, to look at that inherited idea clearly and decide, just as clearly, that they do not want it. Here's how Gen Z moms are rewriting the 'Sacrificial Mother' role as shared by Dr. Chandni Tugnait, a renowned MD (A.M), Psychother...