Posted on 01/03/2005 8:31:56 AM PST by qam1
Some people are way ahead of you:
http://www.vhemt.org/
Some couples feel happy being with each other and finding their mutual company fulfilling. Have kids changes everything and you have to always put them ahead of each other. For some husbands and wives its too big a hassle.
Why thank you! I personally own an H&K USP 45 compact, but I think Ms. Wenker can sufficiently use a Beretta 9mm to end her terrible impact on the environment for us all!
Good to see another mother-of-seven around here! I'm the oldest of seven myself, I know what an interesting circus that can be!
I tend to agree. What harm do these folks do by choosing not to have kids?
They made it other people's business by whining to a reporter about how they're "neglected" and "not celebrated." Otherwise we wouldn't be having this thread!
I agree. I am a big supporter of traditional marriage, but at the same time I have experienced more than my fair share of disdain and condescension from fellow conservatives who assume I'm liberal because I'm unmarried or who act as though I must have something wrong with me to not be married already. I think parenting is a high calling, yet I also think that even some of us who would love to be parents may never experience it for various reasons not related to selfishness.
The problem I've always had with baby showers and reams of congratulations is that any idiot can make a baby. The achievement lies in raising the kid into a respectable human being. I think it better to wait 16 years or whatever, see how the kid has turned out, and then hand over your congratulations and gifts (or not)! LOL
No, I just found it sad that after their husbands died they had no one close to take care of them.
The hostility comes from the fact that this is a conservative website that often discusses things like abortion,etc. The idea that people wouldn't want to have children sounds strange to some people. It really IS no one's business but they opened it up for discussion by putting themselves in a news article.
This fits right in with the ABA model divorce code which evisions children as a MERE ACCESSORY to marriage. In other words marriage is only a means of ADULT behavior.
Why is this important? Because this fits in with homosexual marriage advocated by the ABA and other groups. As long as marriage is tied as an institution raising children then there will never be viability to homosexual marriage.
This article is nothing but propaganda since the childless couple described is acting as AUNT AND UNCLE and at any time could subsitute for mother and father without being notice.
Homosexuals deride normal people as "breeders", a check of the author of this article would probably reveal support for the homo-agenda.
Goebles would be proud.
Circus it is :-). I don't care whether this lady has kids, but complaints about overpopulation are based on the idea that other people are less valuable than Herself.
Just venting after the holidays. Spent two weeks with them. Far too long to be visiting parents.
Good luck to you and thanks for your service!
Partial to Sig myself.
"...Being childless and having abortions are from the same root: selfishness. Period, end of story. If you could have, but do not have, kids, why waste the oxygen? I know this is harsh, but...
Please get a grip on yourself! Would you make this same statement in the worst areas of Detroit, Philadelphia, Camden, or South Central Los Angeles? The residents of those areas can all have kids. Will you harshly criticize those who choose to remain childless?
~ Blue Jays ~
Both taxes are unfair, in my opinion. FWIW. :)
Did you just coin that phraze? LOL
That's a good one, just one degree from Diesel Dykes.
Might be due to what part of the country in which you live. Where I live(about an hour's away from NYC), no one really cares what your marital status is.
You know the type. They're heterosexual but they're angry that other women don't join them in their liberal child-free fantasy. The husband is there for social party invites that are couples only, and maybe the extra paycheck.
You don't know what the F you are talking about...I am about conservative as they come and I am no feminist either. I have been married for seven years and for personal reasons we choose to remain childless and there are all sorts of reasons some couples decide to remain childless.
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