Author defends choice to be childless

Orange County Register ^ | Oct 2, 2009 | Jane Glenn Haas

[pnh102]

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.

[cripplecreek]

No big deal. Lots of people who shouldn’t have kids have them anyway.

[Elvina]

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.

[Liberty1970]

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?

[Grunthor]

WGAS? Having children (or not) is a choice and not something to be celebrated or denigrated one way or the other.

[Lurker]

Lots of people who shouldn’t have kids have them anyway.

And this b**** is in the top ten on that list.

[massgopguy]

No Maternal instincts. She’d make a great terrorist.

[GOP_Party_Animal]

"Having children — or being childless — has a lot to do with a woman's identity. We can be financially independent beings on our own. Our security is not tied to marriage and children," Scott says.

Security. Tell that to the sterile Europeans in 20 years.

[traderrob6]

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.

[Joe 6-pack]

"Why is it that such people have to announce that they are not having kids?"

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.

[TSgt]

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.

[TheBattman]

So long has she isn't using abortion as her method of birth control, then I am not too worried. She has the right to not have children just as much as the Duggars have the right to have 18 19 children. Keep the government out of such choices (and the government should not have to fund either abortion or for children you cannot support yourself.)

[GL of Sector 2814]

No Maternal instincts. She’d make a great terrorist.

I don't have the slightest desire to have children, thus no paternal instincts. Does that make me a great terrorist?

[dirtboy]

A desire to not have children tends to rapidly remove itself from the gene pool.

[2banana]

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, of course - ALL THOSE BIG GOVERNMENT PROGRAMS that you and your kids WILL BE PAYING FOR IN TAXES.

[The Great RJ]

Raising kids is not easy, but seeing your son graduate magna cum laude from law school and looking forward to dancing with your daughter at her wedding next spring makes it worth all the stress.

[Mr. Silverback]

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.

[Mr. Silverback]

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.

[Mr. Silverback]

That’s an awfully big leap.