[JoeProBono]

[Venturer]

Whn most people get married they expect to have children.

Now that’s called decadence?

Geez: What a world.

[GeronL]

The writer is an idiot.

Although if they want to ban leftist freaks and celebutards having kids, I might go for that.

[GOP_Party_Animal]

Last year, the Department of Agriculture estimated a middle-income couple spent $12,290 to $14,320 a year per child. More recently, the Times' Nadia Taha published her calculations of how much it would cost her and her husband to have a child: A safer apartment. A better health-insurance plan. Lost wages. College. Total lifetime tab? $1.8 million.

I'm always amazed at how people accept these bullcrap figures regarding the cost of raising a child. If it costs $1.8 million to raise a single kid, how is it that families grow in the poorest parts of the world? And why does she factor in college expense as part of the cost of having a kid? Bizzarro world of feminists.

So if your sitter costs $15 per hour and you go out for a quiet 2-hour dinner it costs a total of $200?! Maybe you should reconsider the yacht setting for your $170 lobster and filet meal...

[Chode]

something i'm guessing she doesn't have to worry tooo much about...

[RightOnline]

...yet more tripe from a feminist who probably couldn’t get laid if she offered to pay for the room.

[G Larry]

Perhaps if all of the elite, eugenicists, would just march themselves off of a cliff, the world would be a better place.

To the extent there are any shortages of resources in the world, they are imposed by oppressive governments.

[blueunicorn6]

I married the best person I ever met. She has the traits and characteristics that I think should be projected into the future. Our Son has many of her traits and characteristics and it makes me grateful to know that he will carry forward all that is wonderful about her.
“Where a man’s treasure is, there you will find his heart.” It sure does cost money to raise children, but where else can you get such a great Return On Investment? The first time I held his cheek to mine, I was hooked. Every New Year, I think , “Wow! What a great year! He’s grown so much! How can it get any better?” But it gets better every year.
I don’t view my Son as a cost for me or society. I see him as a tremendous asset. He is well trained and capable of doing much good. I also have a niece who is severely handicapped, physically and mentally. But everyone who knows her loves her. She is the best model I know to teach fortitude and unconditional love. She is a blessing.
I understand that there is great sorrow and fear in this world. There is pain and suffering and death. But having a child is opening the door and looking out into the dark and lighting a candle and stepping out, knowing that daylight is near.

[D_Idaho]

I have many friends of my generation (I am 60 years old) who never wanted or had children. For the most part, they are like wrinkly adolescents. They have lots of adult toys and go on vacations a lot. Most of them are quite liberal in their politics. I often think that they ought to be grateful to those of us whose children will be providing their Social Security payments when they retire in a few years. It’s funny that they think they are so smart and sophisticated by not having children. But really, if they are so strongly convinced that they are right, why don’t they attempt to pass on their values to the next generation? To me, it’s just not civilized.

[SecondAmendment]

Too bad Miss Friedman’s parents didn’t act more responsibly instead of burdening this world with yet another “Greenwich Village Idiot”

[danielmryan]

I think what's eating her is the fact that those so-called 'status symbols' mark a return to the norm for the human race. In other words, her own bent for contrariness is no longer being reinforced as high-status.

A factiod from a 1960s Buckley column stuck in my mind: in a survey of the tony-arty set around '65 or so, most of them said they preferred black and white TV to colour. These were people who could have easily afforded colour if they wanted it. In other words, they preferred the more primitive kind of TV because it wasn't "popular."

Much later, I found out that this is a common affectation of the chattering classes from the book The Intellectuals And The Masses.

Over in the UK, there are lots of those people. [Warning: They tend to want the UK to become a Republic, but they are not "Republican."] In days of old, they were pegged as schemers. They may still be to a large extent.

[Scotswife]

If this is the mindset of the young lib feminist types - then there is hope for the future just so long as they continue in this sterile lifestyle.

[greatplains]

Then perhaps this gem will do the world a favor and have herself spayed so she won’t be contributing to an archaic, decadent notion.

[greatplains]

Then perhaps this gem will do the world a favor and have herself spayed so she won’t be contributing to an archaic, decadent notion.

[Sherman Logan]

I suppose wanting to live in a big city with lots of job opportunities and not sleep in the same bedroom as your child and eventually send that child to college — the expenses that Taha added up arrived at $1.8 million — can be classified as “pleasures.” But mostly they’re about maintaining a lifestyle that few of us would describe as decadent.

I guess I'm one of the few.