Posted on 10/09/2009 7:16:47 AM PDT by GL of Sector 2814
Laura S. Scott loves her husband. And that, she says, is enough to sustain a marriage.
They don't need children. "Two Is Enough" is the name of her book explaining a couple's guide to living childless by choice.
"I think I knew very early I didn't want to be a mom," Scott tells me. "I never imagined myself a mom, even as a small child. I never played with dolls. I was 15 when I told my mom, and she suggested things might change with my hormones. Nothing changed."
Scott is 47. She's too young to conceive (excuse the pun) the impact the FDA-approved birth control pill had on young women in the 1960s.
A friend of mine remembers. "Because of the pill, I could make a definite choice not to have children," says Mary, 70. "I have never regretted it. I was not designed to change diapers."
Her husband agreed with the decision but her mother couldn't accept it. She spread the word her daughter's husband was sterile.
Scott says, "People still have a hard time understanding our motives. They assume I may not be a real woman? Maybe I'm not in touch with my maternal self?"
My friend remembers hearing the same comments. She also remembers hearing how "you'll regret your choice when you are old."
Scott says people ask her what she will do when she's old. "Well, I'll create a social network with people to come to my aid," she says. "Is that really a reason to have a child? To breed a caregiver?"
And then there is the accusation she is "selfish."
"That is most annoying. Most unfair," Scott said.
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Why is it that such people have to announce that they are not having kids? It isn’t exactly that hard to not have children.
No big deal. Lots of people who shouldn’t have kids have them anyway.
As much as I dislike the enslaving and devaluing of women that occured after the advent of the birth control pill, I have to say that children and the gene pool are better off without this woman.
There will always be couples for whom childlessness is a legitimate option. But in the context of a materialistic, hedonistic culture, this is a symptom of cultural suicide. Western civilization is dying, and in a matter of decades not centuries. What will replace it?
WGAS? Having children (or not) is a choice and not something to be celebrated or denigrated one way or the other.
And this b**** is in the top ten on that list.
No Maternal instincts. She’d make a great terrorist.
Security. Tell that to the sterile Europeans in 20 years.
My wife and I thought that way for awhile being that we couldn’t seem to conceive. After 11 years and basically coming to grips with being childless my wife unexpectedly gets pregnant with twin boys.
They are now 12 yrs old and the joy of my (and her) life. Amazing how wrong one can be.
As the Bard once penned, "The lady doth protest too much, methinks."
People who are not comfortable with their own actions, choices, decisions, etc. feel compelled to justify them to themselves and seek approval from others.
My wife and I will be married 11 years next week. We waited to have children because of college and me being in the military but are now trying to start a family. I’m 33 and she’s 32.
We want 2 children.
I don't have the slightest desire to have children, thus no paternal instincts. Does that make me a great terrorist?
A desire to not have children tends to rapidly remove itself from the gene pool.
And, of course - ALL THOSE BIG GOVERNMENT PROGRAMS that you and your kids WILL BE PAYING FOR IN TAXES.
I have no beef with childless couples, I just wish that the significant portion of them who act like martyrs about it would quit whining.
I have no beef with couples that choose to be childless, I just wish that the significant portion of them who act like martyrs about it would quit whining.
That’s an awfully big leap.
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