Several years ago, I watched an Oprah Winfrey show with panels of women cheering and laughing excitedly. Some of the women had beamed in from their husband’s offices and their living rooms and bedrooms using Skype.

The episode of Oprah Winfrey’s show was based on a book titledI’d Trade My Husband for a Housekeeperby Trisha Ashworth and Amy Nobile. The authors documented the complaints of some mothers on raising children, childbearing, motherhood, and the crisis women face each day as they try to balance their life and marriage.

The problem they uncovered that led them to write the book was that both married and unmarried mothers, they interviewed were not completely happy about raising children because of the illusions or false hopes they had scripted in their heads about motherhood. The authors said their book was meant to be a tool to empower any woman to be happy…