[Gritty]

These self-centered navel gazers are stuck on one note, me-me-me!

It's probably good these hedonists are not having children. The kids would be neglected and abused.

[Puddleglum]

Translation - let someone else's kid pay outrageous taxes to support me when I'm old and miserable.

[Atlas Sneezed]

Folks, if child rearing is so great, people will naturally choose it. Four out of five generally do.

But what is annoying is that the pro-child folks can't be content with their choice. They seem prone to call those who opt not: "selfish", when they are similarly making their own choice of what they want most for themselves for their lives.

And when it comes to self-absorption, one could make a case that generating a mini-replica to carry on one's legacy after you are gone ranks pretty high.

Finally, let's lose the moronic notion that the desire to have children is genetically heritable. The occasional urge not to breed will not be bred out of the race. Anyone who hypothesizes otherwise may start by explaining the ongoing existence of homosexuality throughout human existence.

[Antoninus]

Bye-bye baby (Childfree and Loving It)

I say, Bye-bye Britain. Hello Londonistan.

If the Brits won't reproduce, you can bet their Muslim friends already living there will more than make up for them.

[Alouette]

as a species we have transcended our biology. We don't live in caves any more and we don't need to breed.'

Give this lady a Darwin Award.

[BBT]

I look at it as just differences in people. Don't care what she does, one way or the other. She'll never know the feeling that envelopes you when your grandchild says, "God sure showed you how to be a good gramma." I'll never know how it feels to be a size 2 at age 60. Trade-offs.

[Flavius Josephus]

I wish I could have a baby.

[steve-b]

"Ooh, it's not fair, you are going on holiday next week, we have to go in the school holidays,"' says Jemma North. 'He doesn't seem to appreciate that it's not a question of fairness, that I made a decision to live like this.'

Sounds like a typical DUmmie ("It's not fair that the guy who studied while I was out partying makes twice as much money as me...".)

[Not A Snowbird]

A high percentage of us now think there's no God

Oh really? I'd love to see her research supporting this pronouncement.

[Junior_G]

I'm so glad we have "transcended our biology". Puke.

[lawgirl]

I agree that people should not have children if they don't want them, but the people in this article sound very selfish and shallow.

[TChris]

And thus you yourself pronounce the absolute end of your lineage. The effect upon your future family is precisely the same as if you were murdered.

[He'sComingBack!]

I'm a first time father at 47. My wife and I adopted our son at birth 8 months ago. BEST thing I've ever done as being a father and getting married (at age 40) made me a better person and less narcissistic. What's with all these articles of late bashing kids & marriage? As another Freeper already remarked, you don't want kids, Fine! Breed yourself out of existence.

[colorado tanker]

Well, at least they're honest. When one of these women does have children, they end up in day care and summer camp. When I see these families on weekends it so obvious the adults can't stand to do family things and the kids act out, screaming for attention.

[RinaseaofDs]

"A high percentage of us now think there's no God and if you add to that there's no need to reproduce then what on earth is it all for? Choosing not to have children gets to the heart of all those big issues.'"

I'm not sure how high the percentage is, but its than line of logic that leads rock stars and the rich to commit suicide.

They realize that, following this logic and their conviction in the lack of a God, that beyond there being no purpose to procreation, there is even less behind eating, sleeping, consuming, fornicating, and then waking up again. Seems the thing to do after a while is to end the waking part.

[B-Chan]

Self-worship is a harsh religion. It must be lonely, trapped in there with nothing but one's own nerve endings for eighty years or so.

We just had our first child, and I don't think I've ever been happier -- poopy diapers, lack of sleep, hypersonic screams, and all.

It has begun to dawn on me that the only time a human being is truly happy is when one is not thinking of oneself. There's nothing like having children and loving them as God intended to make one foget about one's own self.

[proud American in Canada]

This is the first time I've seen this thread....

How sad that this woman won't ever know the greatest love there is... a parent for a child. Some of my happiest memories are of rocking my nursing babies to sleep, while listening to Art Bell at G*d-awful hours of the night, LOL!