This is very sad to me.
I like animals, and think it’s fine people enjoy their pets.
But, if they are having pets as a replacement for people in their lives, something doesn’t seem right about that.
And, if we’re talking about professional career women, who perhaps having absorbed messages from women’s liberation that you don’t need a man, you don’t need family, children, etc. it’s a sad state of affairs, in my opinion.
We all need people in our lives. Not necessarily primarily in an area of romantic attachments either. And if people enjoy their pets, that’s all good too. But, if pets become a substitute or replacement for people in our lives, that’s a very bad trend.
i don’t believe every adult ought to have children.
it takes a lot’of committment to do it right. if they half-ass it we wind up with ferals and messed up perpetual-adolescent adults. how many more britneys and mileys and biebers do we need? not to mentin the urban ferals?
Or it could be that the young woman in question just hasn’t met a kind, loving, child-loving, marriage-minded young man yet, and while she’s waiting for him, she decides not to be totally lonely, so she gets a dog. It’s better than sleeping around or having kids out of wedlock.