[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.

[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.

[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.)

[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.

[Sloth]

I’m 34 & my wife’s 28. She had a hysterectomy about 3 years ago due to endometriosis-type symptoms and other serious health problems, and it’s probably just as well since some of them are genetic. We’d like to have kids, and still may adopt if we ever get financially sound enough to do so & if her health is good enough to care for a child, but I don’t really see why anyone else (outside the family) would care what we do or why.

[Gay State Conservative]

My guess is that after having become well acquainted with these clowns (yah,the husband too) I would come to conclude that they both did this world a *huge* favor by remaining childless.

[eclecticEel]

Is that really a reason to have a child? To breed a caregiver?

Get with the twentieth century - we elect our caregivers nowadays. Instead of expecting our kids to help us out when we become old, we expect strangers we don't know and and have no responsibility toward to fill that role. Of course we'll never meet them, but our elected caregivers/nannies will tax their livelihood on our behalf.

[Captain Rhino]

Fine.

Treat with contempt the struggle of all the generations before you to convey the precious gift of life to the next generation.

The fewer children liberals and leftists have, the fewer there will be to deal with in the future.

Now, if we can just get them to all subscribe to early VHE (voluntary human extinction, another ultraliberal cause), we won’t have to support them in their old age either.

How about a nice cup of Kool-Aid, dear?

[dfwgator]