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To: detective
I'll throw the BS flag on you for your post. You present an "either/or" scenario, where either a woman wants kids or doesn't want them due to some emotional trauma in childhood, a sub-par spouse or some "personal characteristic" that precludes motherhood.

Has it ever occurred to you that some people can have had a happy childhood, be married to a nice spouse and still not want to have children? What "fact of nature" are you citing? Please elaborate, because I think your argument is being pulled out of thin air.

My wife and I had great childhoods, never wanted children and are not bitter in the least. Our lives are not centered around the biological function of procreation. If yours is, that's great for you. To assign a dysfunctional persona to those who don't procreate is ignorance at best.

Neither of us is bitter. Indeed, we often feel sorry for our friends who have children that turn out to be dysfunctional idiots, who then breed like rabbits and burden their parents with their (usually) illegitimate offspring.

Have kids if you want, but denigrating those who don't is based on fallacy, not fact.

32 posted on 12/28/2013 12:12:24 AM PST by Panzerfaust
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To: Panzerfaust

Panzerfaust, I’m quite sure you feel the way you do now. However, consider when you start getting quite elderly. I’m talking over 80. One of you is going to die first. The other will be LEFT ALONE. No kids, grandkids, etc. Eventually you may well have to go into a nursing home. Good luck with visitors, or people to share memories with.


42 posted on 12/28/2013 2:33:45 AM PST by gemoftheocean (...geez, this all seems so straight forward and logical to me...)
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To: Panzerfaust

“Our lives are not centered around the biological function of procreation. If yours is, that’s great for you.”

No, apparently yours is centered around pleasure.

I’m just saying. . .


63 posted on 12/28/2013 5:13:38 AM PST by vladimir998
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To: Panzerfaust

In my post I clearly said “most women” not “all women”.

I don’t know your situation but if you say your wife does not want children I have no reason to doubt you.

I notice you said “we often feel sorry for our friends who have children that turn out to be dysfunctional idiots, who then breed like rabbits and burden their parents with their (usually) illegitimate offspring.”

I said most women want to be wives and mothers not breed illegitimate offspring.


73 posted on 12/28/2013 6:53:27 AM PST by detective
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