[Wormwood]

The social pathologies of selfishness end up costing everyone.

Cheney has maintained a 15-year relationship. She is now preparing to sacrifice the next few decades of her life to caring for a child.

How selfish.

[xsmommy]

the selfishness in this is demanding to experience motherhood and having a child, just because she can. there are plenty of children worthy of adoption that she could raise and devote her life to. just because one is capable of bearing a child doesn't mean one SHOULD, and especially if the lifestyle she has chosen doesn't encompass bearing a child as a consequence thereof. yes, it is extremely selfish of her.

[Pietro]

"How selfish."

Bringing a child into the world w/o a father IS selfish, clearly they care more about themselves than they do the child.

[Volunteer]

"Cheney has maintained a 15-year relationship. She is now preparing to sacrifice the next few decades of her life to caring for a child.

How selfish."

I agree with you 100%.

I may not choose this as my ideal way of bringing a child into this world. But, I'm not going to be changing the diapers or paying tuition.

I think Goldwater would agree with you too.

[jdm]

She is now preparing to sacrifice the next few decades of her life to caring for a child. How selfish.

I had both a mother and a father when I was growing up, as I imagine a lot of us did. With that said, I wouldn't want to deny a young child the same thing.

Imagine, a mother AND a father? Since when has that been asking too much?

[Antoninus]

Cheney has maintained a 15-year relationship. She is now preparing to sacrifice the next few decades of her life to caring for a child. How selfish.

As far as I know, both Cheney and her husband/wife/roommate/partner/whatever are working women. So unless one of them is planning on giving up their career, this child will be raised, in effect, without either a true mother or father. But of course, children of the "elite" have always been abandoned by their parents and raised by nannies. That's why so many of them are so incredibly screwed up to begin with.

[Mazda3Fan]

Excellent post!