Posted on 02/28/2006 1:23:15 AM PST by beaversmom
I was wondering this the other day. How often does the media give a different viewpoint of America to the rest of the world. It would only seem plausible that the media on the other side of the pond might do the same thing. Because bad news and fear sell.
Well said. I have no problem with people who don't want to have children. It's when they look at all children like they are some sort of bugs that I get mad.
This is the first time I've seen this thread....
How sad that this woman won't ever know the greatest love there is... a parent for a child. Some of my happiest memories are of rocking my nursing babies to sleep, while listening to Art Bell at G*d-awful hours of the night, LOL!
I don't have children and I am over forty. I would have liked to have had them but it is extremely hard for Republican African American women to find a mate these days and I refuse to have a baby out of wedlock.
I would have loved to have had a houseful of babies but I couldn't find a hardworking, responsible, monogomous, Christian, Republican African American man to marry. This dilemma affects many black women.
Are we selfish, mean b*tches too for not having children out of wedlock?
I have to respectfully disagree. My brother has lived in Germany for 25 years.
The Muslim population is exploding. He was also just informed retirement age has been raised to 67, due to the lack of "native" contributors.
Socialism at its' finest.
I thought about the meaning of the bridal shower, when two young people who had never lived away from their parents got a few things to start a household. What possible housewarming gifts could you give to two people who were going to have to dump half their stuff to fit into a house? The bride's mother was in her sixties, and should have been the grandmother at the wedding. The bride and her bridesmaids were the ages of the mothers of most brides I'd photographed. They were giggling and acting like schoolgirls, reliving the prom again.
The marriage only lasted a couple of years. I don't think either of them really cared about the other. She was just having another big wedding.
It's their decision, and I've photographed weddings of people in their sixties. it's not the age of the people getting married, but how many times can you have a prom, a wedding, etc., before it loses all meaning?
Your situation sounds diffrent than the women quoted in the article who it appears, had a choice, and chose otherwise (and some for selfish reasons, in my book).
My heart goes out to you in your desire for children and a good mate and father.
You're in my prayers CTf.
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