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Voluntary childlessness bad?!!
Phoenixbliss
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http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1388477/Barren-Britain-19-women-childless-menopause.html Why on earth is the fact 19% of british women are childless by the time of menopause being portrayed as SO bad and negative?
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I'm voluntarily childless because:
1. Children annoy me.
2. I'd make a crap mother anyway.
3. Everyone I know who's had a kid has morphed into a right tedious git afterwards.
4. I enjoy being able to go wherever I want and leave the house without spending ages getting the baby's things together, or having to fork out for a babysitter.
5. There are too many people on this planet anyway. I don't like people all that much, so don't want to add to the growing swarm.
Put the two together and you have "LOONY LEFTY LESBO LIBERAL FEMINISTS ARE FAILING IN THEIR PATRIOTIC DUTY TO PRODUCE WHITE BABIES WHILE THE WICKED SWARTHY MUSLIMS ARE BREEDING LIKE RABBITS!"
So annoying!
No kids for me, thanks.
That would be about right for the Mail.
Move those same people to a country where food/water and healthcare is in abundance and through ahving very large families they will quickly become the largest population in the country.
I like BARREN BRITAIN though. Even better than BROKEN BRITAIN. What's next, BEATEN BRITAIN?
If you don't want children, fine, don't have them, but don't get up in arms about being criticized for this then hypocritically condemn those who choose to have kids.
And who says people with children don't have fun? I got a lot more pleasure from my son than I ever did from a bottle of wine.
As for people with children being boring, believe me drunks beat us hands down on that score.:p
Did you know that baby Sophia had a bath earlier? I do. I was shown photographic evidence and everything. And of her in a high chair with food smeared around her chops. And of her wearing a frock. And of her sitting around in a babyseat contraption like the idle little swineperson she is. I've come to the conclusion that there's only one thing for me to do: take loads of pictures of an empty space and force my friends to look at them. "And this is my lack of baby not having a bath. And this is my lack of baby not holding a rattle. And this is my lack of baby not eating in a messy manner that's somehow meant to be cute."
If one, just ONE OF THEM, sees the funny side, I will retract all comments I have ever made about babies turning you into a tedious drone. If not, I will have proven my point. Whatever it is. I forget.
Re: The drunk comment. I've yet to meet a drunk who insisted on telling me in great detail the progress of his/her bottle of wine. The closest I've got to that is someone going "Shit, we're out of wine, when does the shop shut?"
Possibly because people think you're crazy for not wanting one, ie my friends
Couldn't have put it better myself.
Evolution at work.
I don't know why it's viewed as being strange to some. It would be more strange for someone who really didn't want children to have them just because society wants them to.
I've noticed some people pity those who don't have kids, as if to say you don't have them means you can't have them, which isn't always the case.
I don't think it's bad at all.
Me and the wife have decided we don't want kids. Don't get me wrong we both like kids, but only in small doses.
We sometimes look after our nieces and nephews, but as much as we love them it's good to be able to hand them back after a few hours.
Well said - when you take away the wishy washy sentimental factor,kids mean less money in your pocket and more worries that never end..;-)
Uh huh - there's a higher proportion of childlessness amongst female academics. We're breeding out intelligence, yay for evolution! :cool:
ETA: And has anyone else noticed the pic in that DM article of a woman crying, presumably because she's got no kids? Always better to go for the alliteration 'Barren Britain' even though the report has sod all to do with fertility and everything to do with women actually having the choice nowadays to say "wait a minute, I don't actually want kids so I don't think I'll bother having any". Patronising much?
There's another way to look at that. Rather than raising children, they're spending their time improving the collective knowledge of the human species.
We just need to make sure that knowledge is transferred to as many children as possible.
Just as a matter of interest, what precise words in the article suggest that 19% of women being childless at the time of the menopause is "SO bad and negative" ?
Did you not see this bit:-
and this bit:-
I found no judgemental wording whatever in the article. Just a plain reporting of facts.
But of course, don't let the facts get in the way of another, on this occasion, piss poor excuse to have a pop at the Mail.
This this this this this this this this this x 1 fecking billion (particularly 5).
ETA. Children are a huge drain on the national benefits system anyway, what with NHS care, child benefit, education etc.
Different people are different, we used to find it rather difficult to talk to my brother in the fear that he might snap but since he had his daughter two years ago and another on the way we have found it much fun to be around him and talk more freely. So the kids are a blessing in this situation.
I think having and raising children is wonderful, there should be far more effort put into helping parents do it right.
However, knowing that I'd have made an abysmal mother, I have not had children and am now in the age group where having one naturally is impossible and having one unnaturally would raise comment.
There is room for points of view from the haves and the have nots.