Women Without Children Stand By Choices

Internet Broadcast System ^ | 7/18/07 | McKenzie Weiby

[Tijeras_Slim]

You forgot to mention the tattoos and piercings. ;)

[Tax-chick]

And a hearty handshake all around. Have a Guinness!

Unfortunately, many people seem to have the attitude that, if someone makes different decisions in life, that’s an offensive “judgment” of all the alternatives.

In a way, of course, it is a judgment. I have eight children; this indicates that I value having children above not having children. You have no children, which indicates that you value other alternatives. Fine with me! As I said above, confident people don’t feel the need for everyone to choose the same things.

[baker_girl]

[darkangel82]

That’s why most confident people are conservatives.

[Tax-chick]

My goodness, this all sounds way too Emo for Anoreth. She says she wants to go to Iraq when she’s 18, anyway.

[wideawake]

Replaced themselves.....Why does "Invasion of the Body Snatchers" come to mind.

A common term in demographic analysis is "replacement rate": i.e. given mortality rates, average life expectancy, fertility rates, etc. how many children does each woman in a population have to have in order for the population to remain stable?

In other words - what rate represents replacement, what rate represents decline, what rate represents growth?

It's statistics, not science fiction.

[MarkBsnr]

If you would have your culture passed on to the next generation, then you have to do what you can to pass it on. If you import your next generation, then you get the culture that they bring with them.

It’s very often the ones that complain long, loudly and bitterly about the Mexicans (or whatevers) that are ‘taking over’ that have less than the replacement number of children (well, have them and raise them properly, anyway). Who do they expect to pay for their Depends and those that wipe their butts and shovel mush into their toothless mounts? If they don’t have kids, it won’t be their own kids and if all their social strata have no kids, then it’ll be people from elsewhere.

[Jersey Republican Biker Chick]

8 kids.....WOW!! More power to you!!! I do not know how you do it.

My friend has 5.

[MarkBsnr]

I’m jealous. I only have six children, and probably will not have any more unless the lovely and talented Colleen gathers enough strength...

[Tax-chick]

I don’t know how I do it, either. (I FReep to escape :-).

[Tax-chick]

I’m fortunate in my health. I’ll pray for the lovely and talented Colleen.

Now I have to go run, before the rambunctious and deafening “Vlad the Usurper” wakes up from his nap.

[Tijeras_Slim]

I do not know how you do it.

I guess you never saw those filmstrips in school... ;)

Now take ol' Slim... prime breeding stock...

[girlscout]

[dfwgator]

Old stories and fairy tales paint single women without children poorly -- as spinsters or witches.

Or lesbos.

[NeoCaveman]

I do not know how you do it.

Well when a man and a woman love eachother very much or they have had too much tequilla......

[darkangel82]

LOL!

[Tax-chick]

Single women are “spinsters.” That’s the definition, and has been since the 17th century.

[Jersey Republican Biker Chick]

I tell my friend with 5 kids that she works harder than I do. I really do not know how you do it!!!

[darkangel82]

What about single men?

[Tax-chick]

Bachelors, of course.