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American women (except for FR babes) are exquisitely narcissistic and superficial. They are too selfish and self-centered to have children in their lives.

This is a blanket statement that I disagree with. While some childless women certainly are incredibly shallow, many others haven't found the right guy, aren't in a position where bringing a child into the world would be a good decision, or have decided that if they can't do it right they aren't going to do it at all. Opting out under those circumstances certainly isn't selfish - it's quite the opposite.

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This is a blanket statement that I disagree with. While some childless women certainly are incredibly shallow, many others haven't found the right guy, aren't in a position where bringing a child into the world would be a good decision, or have decided that if they can't do it right they aren't going to do it at all. Opting out under those circumstances certainly isn't selfish - it's quite the opposite.

Which is to say there is nothing that is going to reverse the trend. There is a reason why ALL industrialized nations are experiencing decreasing birth rates.

While some childless women certainly are incredibly shallow, many others haven't found the right guy, aren't in a position where bringing a child into the world would be a good decision, or have decided that if they can't do it right they aren't going to do it at all.

Sorry, but keep waiting for the perfect man and you will be 40 years old, find out you have scarred fallopian tubes from 50 "boyfriends", and babies will be an absolute impossibility.

A brilliant summary is seen in the following video clip:

http://www.wam.umd.edu/~rui/BitterFilm.html

I disagree. It is selfish, in a lot of aspects. Chiefly, material.

Childrearing = sacrifice. Time, resources, your self. Deciding that you won't bring children into the world because you "can't do it right" (me Me ME!) is fickle as can be--you choose to consume all the resources you can muster and maintain for yourSELF and not replenishing the earth, returning something to it.

That's the definition of selfish. A woman inclined to think that way, probably has never endured real hardship or missed a meal, except to make a pair of slacks fit right.

I do apologize if I sound judgemental; but this is dear to my heart, and the most profound circumstance in my life these days. My son is 9 mos. old next week. We're poor, working class, uneducated, etc. We want a dozen (more--LOL)--and I'll tell you what--if ten of 'em end up in Huntsville, the cream will rise to the top, and the 2 give their kids what we gave to them--

LOVE

--not stuff--and all the cash and career in the world ain't gonna help the childless in their dotage. Guess they'll be shovelling their own independently wealthy gilt bedpans...

I work for a guy like this, completely self-absorbed, 36 years old with a live-in girlfriend of 8 years HE REFUSES TO MARRY, or have children with. He hangs out at Stars games and clubs and when not in his professional mode, his manner of conversation resembles an adolescent. And even though a liberal, he is an atheist and philosophically articulates a very Objectivist material dialectic--i.e., can justify anything he desires, by a morality built from materialism, but is blindsided when in conflict with the desires of another, or a group. He can't attribute the same moral principle to them (obviously--it is unworkable).

I like the guy personally, but look forward to his kind either maturing, finding Jesus, or dying off.

"American women (except for FR babes) are exquisitely narcissistic and superficial. They are too selfish and self-centered to have children in their lives."

Well....I agree...except there are the STUPID American women, two of whom I know, who've decided to have babies without being married (or a man in the house).