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To: Raycpa; qam1; Ellesu
Self centered parents are not good for society.

That is complete and total crap. Some people just don't get the urge to procreate. Also, some people don't get married until late in life and the biological ticker goes into "expire."

People who have kids when they can't afford them and ask me to pay the tab, people who have kids on purpose to bring them up in one or zero parent housholds, people who have kids when they are too old (such as Tony Randall) -- these are selfish (sometimes to the point of downright evil) people.

And there is no evidence, anecdotal or otherwise, that child-free couples vote liberal.

40 posted on 01/03/2005 8:49:56 AM PST by freedumb2003 (My DU name is Bunny Planet and I don't care who knows it! Everyone reveal yours!)
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To: freedumb2003
True, but why should they have some award for their decision? I respect anyone's decision to remain childless, but don't be envious of those who do and have baby showers.

"It doesn't occur to anybody to celebrate a child-free woman in that way."
57 posted on 01/03/2005 8:55:15 AM PST by Ellesu
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To: freedumb2003
You disagree that self-centered people should not have children or do you disagree that people who say their owne lives are too important to raise children are self-centered ?

And there is no evidence, anecdotal or otherwise, that child-free couples vote liberal.

You must have missed all the articles regarding the strongest indication of who voted for whom. Childless folks went for Kerry, while parents went for Bush.

103 posted on 01/03/2005 9:10:18 AM PST by Raycpa (Alias, VRWC_minion,)
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To: freedumb2003

I'm child-free, by choice, and I don't vote liberal.
But I'm paying for someone else's kids to get a primary education, I'm paying for libraries (I buy my own books, thank you very much), I'm subsidizing child-care vis a vis WIC and welfare, and all sources of other programs that I will never, ever benefit from.

So before the knee-jerkers start calling us selfish, just take into consideration - my income helps subsidize your child-rearing in more ways than one, and you get the immediately benefits of it.


316 posted on 01/03/2005 10:32:03 AM PST by mabelkitty (Blackwell for Governor in 2006!!!)
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To: freedumb2003

Around here in the blue zone, it's actually the dimocraps who have most of the kids. Firstly there are the dimocrap recruits (e.g. immigrants) having them. Secondly, the debt loving, government school promoting, nanny empoloying set also are having them. Conservatives like me, insistent as we are on standards (of finances, of schooling, of stay-at-home parenting) simply find it difficult, living in the blue zone, to create the proper conditions which meet our standards for having kids. Either we wait (maybe too long!) or we move.


319 posted on 01/03/2005 10:33:53 AM PST by GOP_1900AD (Stomping on "PC," destroying the Left, and smoking out faux "conservatives" - Take Back The GOP!)
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