It took less than a day in her new job for Labour leader Jacinda Ardern's family plans to be discussed by the whole country.
It's a disgrace that in 2017 this invasive question is still being directed at breeding-age females, whether or not the woman herself is happy to talk about it.
Not only is it a privacy issue - why would anyone want to share intimate details with a stranger? - it's a question to which there is no right answer.
In applying for jobs, a woman who admits she wants a child is at a disadvantage to other applicants that won't be taking time off for childbirth. It's an automatic assumption that the woman will be the primary carer of a child and with that comes nightmares of sick days, school holidays and struggles to find babysitters.
A woman who says she doesn't want children is seen by many as unnatural or she is disbelieved. Women are supposed to be maternal by nature and any woman that goes against the grain is judged or is told that she'll change her mind when her biological clock starts ticking - so it's assumed she'll want to have kids later in life, regardless of what she says she wants now.
