Um....I’m approaching 60 and don’t have children. I never needed children or a man to be fulfilled. As for being lonely and empty, did it ever occur to you that some of us revel in our solitude? Now I happen to have friends and family I can socialize with, but if I don’t — so what? It’s not that important to me. I can be alone and actually enjoy it.
I refuse to marry and have children merely because someone thinks I should. It’s not a matter of being a feminist; it’s that having children would not have been right for me, or for the child for that matter. Far too many people have had children that should never have. I recognized a long time ago that I didn’t want to bring a child into this world. That child would have been unwanted. Lord knows there are enough of those in the world.
YOU ARE WRONG. And possibly evil. You should have had children. You should go out right now and have some. It’s, like, your conservative obligation, or something. What are you, some selfish feminist lib?
Sheesh, that hurt even to type. Sorry about that!
“I can be alone and actually enjoy it.”
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Those who cannot stand to be alone for an hour, and there are some, believe me, cannot understand how some of us consider an occasional day spent without seeing another human being to be a great luxury. I don’t want to be a hermit but sometimes solitude is the only thing I really crave.
I have a lot of respect for people who realize they should not have children.....I have family members who should not have....I lost some respect for Dr. Laura when she told a youngish married woman who happened to love teaching primary grade school that she MUST have children of her own....when she really didn’t want to. Heavens...she had a classroom full of children for 8 months of the year....and impacted far more children, I would think. I had a 16 yr old step-granddaughter once ask me “why I didn’t have more children”....my only son is her step-Dad....I told her...I thought one was all I could handle. I hope she learned something...her Mom (my DIL) has been married 3 times with 4 kids by 3 different guys.....