Posted on 08/12/2013 10:12:25 AM PDT by massmike
Time – The Overpriced News Brochure ($4.99 for 60 pages) - had an intense erotic experience with the cover story in its August 12th issue, "The Childfree Life: When having it all means not having children." Please note the choice of words – not childless but childfree, like cancer-free, as if children are a life-threatening disease, which is pretty much the way the contraceptive left views them.
The organ of elite opinion begins by telling us that today "one in five American women will end their child-bearing years maternity-free, compared to 1 in 10 in the 1970s." In this and other statistics cited, Time hears the joyous tread of progress.
For a glimpse of our future, see Europe and Japan.
When I was in Brussels a few years ago, the only women in the city center pushing strollers with more than one child wore head scarves – the fashion future of Europe. Sir Jonathan Sacks, chief rabbi of Britain, warns: "Europe is dying. We are undergoing the moral equivalent of climate change and no one is talking about it."
Last year, the Japanese bought more adult diapers than baby diapers. In 1990, there were more Japanese over 65 than under 15. By 2050, Japan will have more citizens over 80 than under 15. In 1989, those over 60 were 11.6% of Japan's total population. By 2011, they were 21.2%. Can Time's writers even begin to comprehend what this means for a country, a society, a civilization?
As a solution, the left offers the rationing of medical care, death panels and euthanasia. Or, as Japan's Finance Minister, Taro Aso, put it earlier this year, the elderly should "hurry up and die." Over time, the definition of elderly will expand.
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I have one child. My fiancee doesn’t want to bring more kids into this world while foster kids legally free for adoption languish, so that is what we are pursuing.
When I die I will surrounded by family, and I pity the childless people, who will die alone and lonely.
Children are not easy. But they’re worth it.
Ou daughter and son in law just had their first baby, a daughter, our first grandchild. She was born June 6th and is an absolutely precious 2+ months old. I feel very sorry for the parents of the “childfree” couples who will not be grandparents. To not have grandchildren in your life and try to fill it up with just golf, travel, etc. seems very empty and sad.
Latest edition of my local Communist business paper contains article about two-income couples living in McMansions with two pricey SUV’s in the driveway whining about “the high cost of child care” and that being the reason they only have 1 or 2 children.
Humans will no doubt be the first species to outsmart itself out of existence.
Want children? Have some. Don’t want them, don’t have them. Moving on.
People have lost sight of the importance of building a family, the notion of family as being something you build as a living breathing legacy.
The contraceptive right views them the same way.
I don't have the energy to worry about whether other people have children, but I sure get tired of the idea that every woman is fundamentally wrong from the moment of conception because she's capable of having children.
So, Mrs WBill stays home with the kids. By doing that, she saves more than she could earn in a "needs-fulfilling, feminist-approved job in the everyday workforce".
She has more fun, too. She's headed to an amusement park with the kids, today.
No word from the feminists on that. They likely wouldn't approve.
exactly...Freedom from children guarantees you will rot someday in a nursing home and nobody will care or visit you.
The woman in the TIME article admitted to at least 4 abortions. That puts her in the Sandra Fluke category in my book.
Children are not easy. But they’re worth it.
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My experience has told me the following:
Those who choose to be childless have made the right choice.
Ping for your interest Megan aren’t you glad you started having kids early?
and if they commit abortion over and over in the process?
If the people with the greatest access to resources feel that child rearing is too heavy a lift, what does that say about our future?
I come from a big family. My mom stayed at home, and my dad never earned anything near SUV money till I was practically grown.
Children are a blessing any way you look at it, and especially if you ask The Lord!
But those who threaten future loneliness in nursing homes to the childless are missing a consistent inversion of normalcy found in the New Testament. The goal found there is deep union with God the Father in Christ, not provincial bliss. To the eunuchs He promises an inheritance greater than sons and daughters; of the rejected “others”—see Hebrews, after the hall of faith—he says “the world was not worthy of them”.
As for the assumption that children will look after their parents, did he not also promise division? I’ve seen people, good and bad, spend their last years in a nursing home, unvisited by their offspring. Guess who The Lord sent? My Grandmother, me, you.
God cares for us always, that’s why these false oppositions of married/unmarried, parent/childless are bunk. He does not treat us as our sins deserve. He is good to us because that’s the way He IS.
“For I am God, and not man”
not sure if it’s a good thing that liberals are making more liberals.
My wife & I were each only children. She suffered from MS & feared passing it on (it would later prove fatal).
We were at a church social & a mother of teenage girls asked us if we had children (we were in our mid 40’s). We said, no. What about your brothers & sisters? We’re both only children, we replied.
“How could you do this to your MOTHERS!!?” she hissed, and
stormed off.
and if they commit abortion over and over in the process?
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Funny, how in God’s name would I know if and how many abortions someone has had? I don’t ask, in just the same way I don’t ask (out of the blue) if someone is a cancer survivor.
Try to stay with me here, the folks I know who have chosen not to have children have, in my opinion only, made the right choice, because, again in my opinion only, they were not “parent material”. And there are lots and lots of factors that go into that.
You can't just leave people alone! You have to join in badgering and shaming them into living the way you want them to live!
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