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More young women choosing dogs over motherhood
http://nypost.com/2014/04/10/more-young-women-choosing-dogs-over-motherhood/ ^

Posted on 04/11/2014 7:05:59 AM PDT by MNDude

America’s next generation of youngsters should be called “Generation Rex.” If you’re wondering why playgrounds around the city are so quiet and dog runs are packed, a new report has an answer: More and more US women are forgoing motherhood and getting their maternal kicks by owning handbag-size canines.

Data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention show that a big drop in the number of babies born to women ages 15 to 29 corresponds with a huge increase in the number of tiny pooches owned by young US women, reports the business-news site Quartz.

Dog-crazy New York ladies told The Post that they aren’t surprised by the findings — and that they happily gave up diaper changes, temper tantrums and college funds for the easy affection of their doggy “child.”

“I’d rather have a dog over a kid,” declared Sara Foster, 30, a Chelsea equities trader who says her French bulldog, Maddie, brings her more joy than a child.

“It’s just less work and, honestly, I have more time to go out. You ;. don’t have to get a baby sitter.” The federal data behind the report show that over the past seven years, the number of live births per 1,000 women between ages 15 and 29 in America has plunged 9 percent.

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To: Dallas59

"Does this dog make my butt look big?"

41 posted on 04/11/2014 7:39:13 AM PDT by Jeff Chandler (Obamacare: You can't make an omelette without breaking a few eggs.)
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To: MNDude

I became FaceBook friends with two women I knew from High School. They (are) really gorgeous women.

It seemed they grew to be liberal fag hags (female lovers of queers), and they were constantly posting annoying photos of their dumb little insect dogs, so I finally blocked their postings.


42 posted on 04/11/2014 7:41:39 AM PDT by MNDude
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To: KoRn

Responsible people need economic security to have children. The 8$ an hour, temp work, no pension, no benefits, get laid off every year jobs the Wallmart free-trade open borders economy produces will only cut it for the people who probably shouldn’t be having children to begin with.


43 posted on 04/11/2014 7:41:58 AM PDT by Monmouth78
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To: MNDude
There are three words that describe why more and more people prefer dogs over children:

Child Protective Services.

In some situations, CPS agencies are as ruthless as the IRS in enforcement of the whims of the bureaucracy. Case in point: Justina Pelletier.

44 posted on 04/11/2014 7:42:49 AM PDT by bassmaner (Hey commies: I am a white male, and I am guilty of NOTHING! Sell your 'white guilt' elsewhere.)
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To: MNDude; Jacquerie; Jane Long; RitaOK; AllAmericanGirl; Kaslin; crosslink; Seattle Conservative; ...

As the National voting population continues to choose to increase the tax burden on our Nation’s future children with greater and greater permanent Welfare Debt, the more practical of the two subspecies of humans, (Women), have increasingly chosen to have fewer children.

Besides, “CHILD” spelled backwards is just “DLIHC.”


45 posted on 04/11/2014 7:44:14 AM PDT by Graewoulf (Democrats' Obamacare Socialist Health Insur. Tax violates U.S. Constitution AND Anti-Trust Law.)
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To: americas.best.days...
Mary recently quit her job to be a stay at home mommy to their two rescue pugs

Sad. Not sure who's more neutered...the dogs, Mary's Husband, or the reporter trumpeting this fact.

46 posted on 04/11/2014 7:44:30 AM PDT by wbill
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To: fatima

A new word I learned a few years ago.
Parents don’t have grandsons and granddaughters.
They become granddoggers. Dogs replace kids for the grandparents too!!


47 posted on 04/11/2014 7:44:41 AM PDT by Maine Mariner
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To: MNDude

They are substituting dogs for children

Not choosing rather than.

They are choosing their careers over children

Dogs are just a band aid to quell the instinct itch


48 posted on 04/11/2014 7:45:25 AM PDT by wardaddy (the real battle is what do we replace America as we knew it with....and will we fight..literally)
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To: wbill

LOLOL!


49 posted on 04/11/2014 7:45:25 AM PDT by Jane Long (While Marxists continue the fundamental transformation of the USA, progressive RINOs assist!)
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To: KoRn

I agree but average Freeper could care less

About the Anglo Saxon race.....actually its about European descended in general


50 posted on 04/11/2014 7:48:24 AM PDT by wardaddy (the real battle is what do we replace America as we knew it with....and will we fight..literally)
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To: MNDude
liberal fag hags .....but you repeat yourself..... :-)

Mrs WBill has a couple of friends (more like acquaintances?) like this. They're pretty useless wastes of oxygen. Mrs WBill says they complain that they can't find any good men to date / marry, because "No straight men are like their gay friends".

Duh.

51 posted on 04/11/2014 7:49:06 AM PDT by wbill
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To: qam1

This misplacement of maternal instinct will be edited out of the species in a generation.


52 posted on 04/11/2014 7:50:08 AM PDT by tbw2
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To: MNDude

The dogs are “accessories” to these ladies. Like kids used to be to them. But that didn’t work out so well.


53 posted on 04/11/2014 7:52:58 AM PDT by headstamp 2 (What would Scooby do?)
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To: Obadiah
You're right, but in all fairness there are some of us who chose to be childless, not necessarily out of selfishness or wanting to hook up with a different guy every night. I've never had children because I don't have the right stuff to be a good parent. In my distressed neighborhood, I've seen the results of women having children they don't want or are unprepared to raise. Of course, some of them aren't good dog owners either, but that's a whole ‘nuther issue.

My point is, don't paint everyone who would rather not have children with the same broad brush. I'm proud and supportive of those who do have children, but it's not right to condemn those who for whatever reason can't or won't have children.

54 posted on 04/11/2014 7:53:44 AM PDT by fatnotlazy
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To: Orangedog

Well the girls I’m talking about are in their 30’s with great jobs and can take of themselves.


55 posted on 04/11/2014 8:01:11 AM PDT by fatima (Free Hugs Today :))
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To: KoRn

Many millenials witnessed their parents divorces or raising kids never married and don’t want to go through it OR have kids and put them through it. Rather than strengthening marriages and learning social skills, they opt out with a socially acceptable alternative to children - pets.


56 posted on 04/11/2014 8:02:22 AM PDT by tbw2
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To: Norm Lenhart

This is true and they also say they are not good enough to raise a child.


57 posted on 04/11/2014 8:02:37 AM PDT by fatima (Free Hugs Today :))
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To: Maine Mariner

Good one.I had to become friend with all my youngest daughters friends when I joined facebook.She made me.I am always encouraging them to have a baby.My daughter is saying everyone she knows is pregnant because of the bad winter:)Of of all her close friends her and another girl have children.The other girl told me her Mother told her to abort when she got pregnant.She is a married woman.Her Mom’s a Doctor.


58 posted on 04/11/2014 8:08:57 AM PDT by fatima (Free Hugs Today :))
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To: momtothree

“In life, not everything is decided upon YOUR time table. IMHO.”

Medical science may soon make that irreverent for people in their 20s. Especially for the wealthy.

Within the next 10-20 years we will see unspeakable breakthroughs and will most likely be able to regenerate nearly every part of the body good as new.

Unless, of course, the ‘rats are successful in bringing us back to the stone age.


59 posted on 04/11/2014 8:09:16 AM PDT by varyouga
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To: qam1
Men, well we are OK, God created Asian women for us.

+1000. I thank Him every day for creating my wife. She always has a lot to say on the subject of American women and the feminist idiocies our culture programs into them. :)

60 posted on 04/11/2014 8:09:47 AM PDT by Mr. Jeeves ([CTRL-GALT-DELETE])
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