It is so frustrating to me the people hating on Maya deciding she wants kids. Never within the entire run of the show do i remember her saying "i don't want kids." Even within the episode she and carina get engaged she alludes to the relatives together with her marrying a person and presumably what comes thereupon , (kids) as per her fathers wishes after reaching a particular rank within the fd.
Now i'm unsure the age of most fans of station but i'm mid 30s and have friends from all walks of life within the straight and LGBTQ+ community. I am a bisexual woman married to a bisexual woman and that we have an almost 3 year old daughter. Now i prefer carina always wanted to be a mom, my wife not such a lot but similarly to Maya she hadn't gave it much thought outside of not wanting to carry a baby. She grew up during a very religious home and was adopted and really closeted. But once we got together and realized it had been moving future , i used to be very upfront together with her and told her kids weren't negotiable on behalf of me . I told her if that was something she didn't want explicitly then we would have liked to finish things before we got deeper into our relationship. She said we could have kids but she wasn't ready yet and we decided we'd discuss it when she turned 25. We did and decided it wasn't the proper time and revisited it. Then after turning 30 she said she was ready and that we pursued iui and when that failed us we found differently to conceive. This is one reason i'm excited to ascertain marina's child journey. It is something we don't see for wlw in media very often.
Now all that said, like i discussed I even have friends through very different walks of life. One friend who is wlw and long time married apparently tried for kids in their youth but were unsuccessful and decided then that they were not meant to be moms, embraced that and are quite happy. Now if you'd have asked me, i would've guessed they never wanted kids but as i learned that was not the case.
Another wlw friend had a toddler with a person in her younger days but was forced to offer her up for adoption and has always wanted to be a mom. Her life has not figured out for that and now she and her wife know they don't have the means to support a toddler and have made peace thereupon . They are the simplest non biological aunts to my daughter and to their other friends children. I know if the chance ever arose for them to require custody of a friends kid they might gladly roll in the hay and be so happy.
Now i even have a lover who is during a future relationship but has said multiple times she isn't sure she wants kids (similar to Maya). She is from a spiritual family so its expected for her to urge married and have kids. But in true pk form she is subverting that by living together with her while boyfriend and not having a child . However since she has not ever explicitly told me she doesn't want kids, i might not be surprised for her to at least one day say she is becoming a mother.
Now I even have two other friends who both said they didn't want kids. One is wholeheartedly not getting to have kids to the purpose of doing a legit ted mention it. The other met and fell in love with an older man with three young kids and decided she was willing to take on the stepmother role even with drama from the youngsters and ex, but together she and her hubby decided they didn't want to feature a toddler of their own to the combination . She is therefore sticking to her not having kids but helps raise her husbands.
My sister always said she didn't want kids then got pregnant at 18, she had two accidents then decided after reconnecting together with her childhood sweetheart and marrying him to try for a third.
So on behalf of me i don't question women once they say they don't want kids because i do know for a few which will and can change and for others it wont. In light of my experiences and friends i don't think Maya's decision is out of left field or out of character. I think more people got to think long and hard before putting their own hopes for the character on her. Let the story play out, if you think that Maya is a smaller amount badass by becoming a mother then that's on you. I for one think moms are badass.
