Posted on 01/03/2005 8:31:56 AM PST by qam1
Too disappointing?
Amazing how meaningful some learning opportunities can be!
NOW I think THAT'S a SELFISH reason to have kids......so that you can have somebody to help you when you get old?? I'll bet your kids will be happy to know that.
That is not borne out by observation. Plenty of people have kids because of social pressure, knowing they were unsuitable, and then do a lousy job of raising them. I have seen it in my own family.
Your sarcastic remark may actually be the premis of Mr homo-advocate Wolf's article. His premise is that marriage is FORCED to be about children which it should only be about consenting adults who love entering into a contract based on love and sex. Did I metion the love and sex?
This is not about the people who decide not to have children. Mr Wolf is endevoring to push childless marriage as the norm to support his homosexual marriage causes.
We should be focusing less on why an individual normal couple makes the decision and focus more on why marriage AS AN INSTITTUION is centered on children. As FR we need to go deeper into a article and the author than mere surface anecdotes. What is this guy's bias? Why only anecdotes? (classic homo-advocacy writing BTW, just happy happy anecdotes)
The couple who chooses not to have children are the most selfish of all people, for they demand the future pay for their present.
Why? They happen to have an organization for people like them. So what? They're not saying having children is bad, they just say it changes things, as it does. They just wanted a group they felt comfortable with. Why does that make you all feel so UNcomfortable. I don't have children of my own (Grown stepchildren), never once regretted it. I don't go around admonishing people for having children, why do people who have children always feel the need to tell me how selfish I am???? I'll wait for a good answer on that one.
"Nowadays running all over the place knocking over waiters and food displays is perfectly permitted... as is screaming."
Same folks who think children are too much work.
I didn't imagine behaving like that in my wildest dreams...after doing it once :)
My grandma successfully raised 10 functional kids, and when she needed swat one of them on the butt, she would first take the time to stick her hand in a usually cold sinkful of dishwater and then yank their pants down to their bare butt before swatting them with a wet hand. A wet hand on a bare butt magnifies the "effect" of a spanking.
Well said.
Liberals have a habit of using rare exceptions to prove what they think should be the norm for everyone.
i agree with you completely. i have 3 kids and i have absolutely no problem relating to other freepers, kids or not. sharing a life philosophy is so much more important than just having kids or not having kids, in common. now i got christmas cards from two girlfriends who are not married and do not have children and who also do NOT share my political philosophy. i was struck by the fact that i have NOTHING in common with them, and i think it has more to do with the different philosophy than it does about their lack of kids.
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My wife and I have been married for 6 years now and do not have children because we are trying to finish college.
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You can do both. I did. Children need fewer material things than many adults think they do.
I can totally relate to what you say. I befriended a woman in a similar state -- bought groceries, took her to church, etc. When she complained about her back hurting I bought her a new mattress. She died while I was on vacation/picking up my daughter from college.
This woman's daughter, who lived just a couple miles from her and had refused to even visit her when she was alive, did the one thing her mother feared she would do when she died. The daughter cremated her, because it was cheaper. I don't know what I would've done to help had I been in town. But, I have never known a colder woman in my life. I was told that when she was told that her mother had died, the daughter exclaimed, "Praise the Lord!"
LOL!! The suitable parent comment reminded me of my parents. My dad always thought he wasn't a good dad. I think he was a wonderful dad. Meanwhile, during one of the last arguments my mom and I had before we did not talk to each other she told me she was a wonderful mother.
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"Most likely." How is having children a selfless act? Most people who have children are expressing the ultimate in selfish megalomania -- they want to make another copy of themselves.
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Those of us with children are just laughing at your ignorant statement.
"Being childless and having abortions are from the same root: selfishness. Period, end of story. If you could have, but do not have, kids, why waste the oxygen? I know this is harsh, but..."
What a load of crap. You can't be a real human being or accomplish great things without having kids?! Ridiculous. By the way, I just had my first child 12/14/04. I'm just not enough of jerk to call people without kids useless oxygen thiefs.
Interesting... never heard of that spanking method...
I feel sorry for these selfish people.
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