Posted on 05/19/2008 10:42:19 AM PDT by SeasideSparrow
It's springtime, and all God's creatures are ready for mating, but psychobabble killjoys are warning: Don't have kids. They'll make you miserable, and you'll deserve taxation for environmental abuse.
On May 8, just as the songbirds were readying nests for their offspring, a Harvard professor tried to put a damper on the joys of human procreation by declaring that having children strips happiness from their parents. Professor Daniel Gilbert announced to the Happiness and its Causes conference in Sydney, Australia, that with each child the barometer of happiness plummets.
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What is a freerider (in this context)?
In short we're obnoxious childfree folk.
I still support you freeriders right to not breed (in TS’s case I even recommend it), but this professor is an idiot.
The biggest pleasure in my life is being a Dad. It’s all about what makes us happy. In my case it’s my kids. In this professors case it’s thinking up random crap to be depressed about.
Ah.
We got that sanctimonious crap before Mrs. MWT went through multiple rounds of IVF. (We subsequently had children, then natural. It’s like her engine started.)
Now the same people accuse us of crimes against nature for doing IVF.
Exactly.
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