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Why I am not having kids (Hint: Rhymes with "schmarbon schmootprint")
The Seattle Times ^ | January 30, 2013 | Sharon Pian Chan

Posted on 01/30/2013 9:24:04 PM PST by Junior_G

My husband I just ended our debate about having children. To breed or not to breed, this was the question — and it had been ticking like an egg timer in the back of my head for 15 years.

We talked about it for five months. In the car on the way to work. During dinner. For five minutes, for 30 minutes. After seeing nephews and nieces.

I wanted it to be a decision we made, not one made for us by chance or time. I turned to friends with kids for advice. “Feel free to convince me to your side,” I told them. Leaving a legacy and crazy joy, they said. I bow down to their personal sacrifice. It is an enormous gift for society to raise an educated, productive, ethical, moral child.

On our last vacation, my husband and I mulled over this question: “On your deathbed, what will you regret not doing?” We listed our answers at dinner on the last night. Neither of us mentioned children...

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TOPICS: Culture/Society
KEYWORDS: carboncult; cultureofdeath; greenreligion; leftuniverse; lifehate; pantheism; peoplehate; populationcontrol
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To: Junior_G

She and her hubby should get fixed. At least they won’t murder an innocent child on their way down to hell.


41 posted on 01/30/2013 11:06:39 PM PST by vpintheak (Occupy your Brain!)
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To: Junior_G

Good. Don’t breed another bone-headed communist sucker.


42 posted on 01/30/2013 11:11:34 PM PST by muir_redwoods (Don't fire until you see the blue of their helmets)
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To: Junior_G

Lack of offspring from this moron is no great loss!


43 posted on 01/30/2013 11:13:58 PM PST by Jim from C-Town (The government is rarely benevolent, often malevolent and never benign!)
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To: Junior_G

Works for me.


44 posted on 01/30/2013 11:13:58 PM PST by dagogo redux (A whiff of primitive spirits in the air, harbingers of an impending descent into the feral.)
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To: Junior_G
Reality: Childless gays and lefties die out after one generation.

Leaving: Christians who had larger families.

Impact: society saved in about 100 years.

Whew. I was getting worried there for a while.


45 posted on 01/30/2013 11:23:17 PM PST by garjog (Heroes Died. Obama Lied.)
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To: Junior_G

To the leftist beyitch who wrote the Slimes article: Halle-flippn’-Lujah. I am so glad you are not going to procreate.


46 posted on 01/30/2013 11:51:55 PM PST by 60Gunner (Fight with your head high, or grovel with your head low.)
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To: Michael.SF.

Michael.SF.: “Now, if we can just convince all the whack-job-libs of this, we would be on the right track.”

I don’t know why you need a sarcasm tag. That sounds like smart thinking to me. We’re better off if more of these libs choose to be genetic Darwin award winners. I guess it hasn’t occurred to them that the future is owned by those who reproduce. If they truly wanted to save the environment, they’d have as many children as possible and indoctrinate them in the cause. Otherwise, who “speaks for the trees,” Lorax-like, in the future?


47 posted on 01/31/2013 12:01:31 AM PST by CitizenUSA (Why celebrate evil? Evil is easy. Good is the goal worth striving for.)
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To: Junior_G
Horse Hopp
48 posted on 01/31/2013 1:27:28 AM PST by Berlin_Freeper
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To: Junior_G

Doesn’t she realize the great maternal experience she is missing by not getting pregnant, then filming the abortion to watch over & over in her dotage? /sarc


49 posted on 01/31/2013 2:32:29 AM PST by ApplegateRanch (Love me, love my guns!©)
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To: Junior_G

First, I thank her for not producing another lefty child.

Second, I commend her for saving the planet for the many future generations of childless adults to enjoy.

Oh, wait a minute. Something sounds a bit off with my second statement. Can’t quite put my finger on it.


50 posted on 01/31/2013 2:57:18 AM PST by Right Wing Assault (Dick Obama is more inexperienced now than he was before he was elected.)
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To: Junior_G

I’m going to take up a collection to buy her one of those suicide machines. Or maybe just a nice long sword.


51 posted on 01/31/2013 2:58:28 AM PST by Right Wing Assault (Dick Obama is more inexperienced now than he was before he was elected.)
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To: Junior_G

someone elses “kid” will grow up to be the nursing aide who changes her diapers and feeds her someday in the nursing home, and maybe says “Happy Mother’s Day” as she plumps her pillow

On the other hand anyone who calls having children “breeding” is better off fussing over a cat


52 posted on 01/31/2013 2:58:40 AM PST by silverleaf (Age Takes a Toll: Please Have Exact Change)
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To: Junior_G

Way too much thinking going on here.


53 posted on 01/31/2013 3:27:36 AM PST by AdaGray (squi)
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To: Right Brother

I suspect she’s waiting for the comet next winter.


54 posted on 01/31/2013 3:35:11 AM PST by Justa
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To: Junior_G
My husband I just ended our debate about having children. To breed or not to breed, this was the question — and it had been ticking like an egg timer in the back of my head for 15 years.

You need read no further than the first sentence. Talking about "to breed or not to breed" says it all!

The fact that this woman writer has been talking about having children for fifteen or more years means that she knows that having and raising children is a good thing to do. She regrets her decision to stay a "teenager" for her whole life.

She is probably already beyond her child bearing years. But have no fear, the question will come up again and again.

55 posted on 01/31/2013 3:35:47 AM PST by olezip
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To: Junior_G

There must have thousands of these types of articles written by smug leftists in the last fifty years. Because I remember reading a number of them in the late sixties or early seventies. Hey, you don’t want to have childen, then don’t have them. You want to be a perpetual adolescent and have fun without the little ankle-biters getting in the way. Fine, your life is none of my business. But don’t give me the balderdash about saving the planet please.


56 posted on 01/31/2013 3:40:33 AM PST by driftless2
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To: dfwgator

That was my first thought!!!!

What a great movie.


57 posted on 01/31/2013 3:59:25 AM PST by perez24 (Dirty deeds, done dirt cheap.)
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To: dfwgator

That was my first thought!!!!

What a great movie.


58 posted on 01/31/2013 3:59:38 AM PST by perez24 (Dirty deeds, done dirt cheap.)
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To: Tublecane

“Too many giants of higher culture, in the fields of art, science, philosophy, politics, religion, etc. were childless to mention. “

And that’s a shame. Too many good people don’t have kids, and way too many bad people have plenty.

“Idiocracy” isn’t just a movie, it’s a warning.


59 posted on 01/31/2013 4:03:36 AM PST by PLMerite (Shut the Beyotch Down! Burn, baby, burn!)
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To: Junior_G

I’m sure that some welfare mom will more than make up for it, while broadening the gene pool by producing kids with multiple sperm donors.


60 posted on 01/31/2013 4:14:54 AM PST by Daveinyork (."Trusting government with power and money is like trusting teenaged boys with whiskey and car keys,)
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