Posted on 11/28/2006 10:11:14 AM PST by steve-b
No, no, sorry. I don't have any . . ."
Why does this always seem to be the first thing I'm asked? It takes my breath away, yet why do I feel the need to apologize for my reply? Looking vague and embarrassed, my questioner glances over my shoulder for someone else to talk to: someone with whom he or she has more in common, someone with children....
Just as some women talk of a visceral urge that propels them to have children, others speak of an equally visceral urge that propels them not to. Laurie, a transplanted southerner who teaches history in New York, began to realize at an early age that she didn't want children, as she watched wealthy mothers in Richmond hire other women to care for their children. "These people compelled to have trophy babies in certain socioeconomic echelons don't want to face the realities of raising a child." She is now infuriated by what she calls "that Mother Right" -- the assumption that everyone will make way for a woman with a stroller or a child in tow....
But almost all the women I've talked with describe feeling acutely aware of what they see as our national obsession with motherhood: "The Bump Watch" hounding Jennifer Aniston and Jennifer Lopez; "Celebrity Babies" like the elusive Suri Cruise; and "The Ultimate Hollywood Accessory: A New Baby," popularized by Brangelina. Some use the term "child-free" to differentiate those who choose not to have children from those who had been unable to have them....
(Excerpt) Read more at washingtonpost.com ...
Well, it's their choice, but if everyone made the same choice there would be no children and no future. Somebody has to have the children. So if you don't have the children, then the burden falls on someone else. Someone else has to sacrifice, so you can buy Prada. (note: This doesn't apply to women who have tried or cannot have children, only those who actively decide not to have children.)
I'd rather people that like children have lots of them, and people who don't want children have none of them.
I have no children, but am always ready to assist pregnant ladies and mothers with small children.
There is however a limit, such as having to work extra hours because a co-worker just HAD TO take little Elijha and Megan to a soccer tournement.
You did read the whole article, and see that she had a stillbirth, right? Why are you so angry with her?
You seem to be on some mission to uncover all sorts of child-hating, pro abortion motives on this thread.
"brood: A family of offspring or young."
That is what I mean - and don't you dare bring them onto the subway!
If women don't have children for the Fatherland, who's going to?
And after we get done importing all of the Hispanics to make up for the children those women should have had, will there be much of a Fatherland left, or will we be calling it Patria and hailing the the newest Latin American dictator as our el Presidente?
My sister-in-law had 6 kids, and didn't do a great job raising them. One of them has been in and out of jail. Another one is in her early 20s and already has 4 children out-of-wedlock.
What if a child were ill?????
Just put Mille's and pissants threads oth the other side of the firewall. :)
Except for the past 3 years, I've lived my entire life in either NYC or Chicago.
There are plenty of unsupervised children running around, but rarely do such children have more than one parent in common.
I'm talking about families where all the children are the natural or legally adopted children of the same two parents.
Clearly a woman who is having three or more children by three or more different men is not going to be a fit parent to even one child.
Cripes. Are some people born bitchy, or is there a special school that trains them?
Thanks, but I'm used to the ham-fisted attempts, and they roll right off. Some people just have a bee in their bonnet on the subject, and can turn World Series threads into abortion threads ("Well, they might have had a decent shortstop if he hadn't been aborted...."). You just have to expect that sort of stuff around here. :)
HEH!
Not at all the same as providing for a child's leisure activities. That wouldn't bother me a bit.
I actively decided not to have children, but it's ok. I do not own anything by Prada.
I think a lot of people are producing future little soldiers, since that seems to be your overarching concern. :)
LOL. I have no kids either. I saw a Prada bag once. What do they use it for? A coin purse?
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