Is being a mother the greatest honour?

No. It isn’t. Most any woman can breed.

Being a good mother – possibly. Simply falling pregnant and the aftermath – no way.

No it is not, it is a ntural way of life and how we procreate. To say it like that to me sounds like it “beats all” and throwning the man into second class citizen status. Just because you get pregnant and have child doesn’t automatically make it the greatest honour.

If a 15 year old has parents who don’t look out for her and teach her well and she goes out there and act like a floozy and gets herself pregnant..I wouldn’t say that is honour, I would more say “greatest mistake”

With that said, being a good parent (when ready) can be a great honour as far as self satisfaction, but just because you can be a mother does not mean it’s teh greatest honour one can have bestowed upon them. Just my opinion.

I agree with you guys. Being able to give birth to new life is amazing, but I’ve seen too many examples of women who just aren’t that into raising the kids they’ve given birth to, and I seen no honour in that.

The love my son gives me IS an honour that I try to be deserving of every day.

No.

Everyone knows that having the highest score in your favorite videogmae is the greatest honor.

Just like the other answers I must say that it’s wonderful but lots of losers become mothers. Being a great mother is extremely important but just motherhood in general? Lots of women would be better off choosing other things besides motherhood.

NO. Not at all. Especially if your doing it for the honour of it all.
You need to do it for unselfish reasons, you need to know you can help and advise them all the way up to adulthood, you need to have a very good understanding of the world so you can teach them these things, you need to have a genetically very sound mate, you need to have enough money to give them everything they need, you need to know that doing this for you simply isn’t good enough…there’s too many people in the world as it is. Bringing a child into the world because you simply don’t have anyhting better to do with your life has to be one of the most selfish things you can do. You need to KNOW you can give them the best start, or you could be sending the child you love on a very very sad, lonely road. It happens.

If you are asking is being a wonderful mother the greatest work of all—work to be honored—I think the answer is yes. But, it is done not because of the honor but because of the joy for the child and mother. Great work, gravely undervalued in our society.

a good one yes…but how to judge that, is not for jellies to ponder

@rahm_sahriv breeding isn’t motherhood.
@tata12 I don’t believe in honor as a concept – but if I did I still wouldn’t say it’s the greatest honor – who’s giving you this honor, god? c’mon.