Quote:The childfree are "a new vanguard (that) began to question the reproductive imperative." These women are "finding new paths of acceptance." "As their ranks rise – and as the community of adults without children diversifies …. so do positive attitudes about being able to lead a fulfilling, childless life. Along the way, these women are inventing a new female archetype, one for whom having it all doesn't mean having a baby."

Let us now bow our heads in reverent acknowledgement of their manifold achievements.

Besides, the childfree get a $234,000 bonus, what it costs to raise a child to 18, according to USDA. Childfree couples get to spend more time with their expensive sports car (no SUV for them) parked in the driveway – as well as sipping wine, cuddling on the couch, and taking vacations to exotic locations. "I'm not lacking anything," one of the childfree interviewed for the article insists, a bit defensively, perhaps.

Quote:Some can't have children. Others forget to have them, being distracted by education and careers.

But the proudly, defiantly childfree? To call them selfish is like saying that Barack Obama is somewhat disingenuous. Basically, their attitude is après moi, who-gives-a-bleep. Time magazine calls this trailblazing and heroic.

In a Townhall.com commentary, David Stokes reminds us of the words of Theodore Roosevelt on a European tour in 1910: "The greatest of all curses is the curse of sterility, and the severest of all condemnations should be that visited on the willfully sterile."

The Old Bull Moose and committed natalist contended: "If the failure is due to the deliberate and willful fault, then it is not merely a misfortune, it is one of those crimes of ease and self-indulgence, of shrinking from pain and effort and risk, which in the long run nature punishes more heavily than any other. If we of the great republics, if we, the free people who claim to have emancipated ourselves from the thralldom of wrong and error, bring down on our heads the curse that comes upon the willfully barren, then it will be an idle waste of breath to prattle of our achievements, to boast of all that we have done."

(08-12-2013 02:35 PM)GoApps70 Wrote:  Much to do about nothing.

(08-12-2013 03:41 PM)mixduptransistor Wrote:  who gave you or anyone else the right or imperative to demand that people raise kids if they don't want to? If you have the right to have a dozen kids, I certainly have the right to have none.

(08-12-2013 04:02 PM)Native Georgian Wrote:  

(08-12-2013 03:41 PM)mixduptransistor Wrote:  who gave you or anyone else the right or imperative to demand that people raise kids if they don't want to? If you have the right to have a dozen kids, I certainly have the right to have none.

You do, indeed, have the right to live a childless life. The point is not to take that "right" away from you, only to point out the consequences to the broader society when so many people choose to exercise that right at the (approximately) same time.

The coming demographic collapse is actually one of the most profound developments in human history. There has never been anything like it since the 1300s in Europe, although the trend is pretty far along now in Japan and several European countries. The Muslim world is slowing down, too, but Nowhere Near to the same extent.

The novel and movie "Children of Men" attempted to sketch out some sort of image of what the future holds in this regard. Interesting work.

(08-12-2013 03:41 PM)mixduptransistor Wrote:  Why would you want a group of people with whom you have almost nothing in common religiously, culturally, or politically to procreate and create more godless communist heathens?

And who gave you or anyone else the right or imperative to demand that people raise kids if they don't want to? If you have the right to have a dozen kids, I certainly have the right to have none.

(08-12-2013 04:06 PM)firmbizzle Wrote:  Don't you also complain about the mom with 10 kids?

Quote:I recently ran into one girl that told me she isn't having kids because she wants to buy a Lamborghini.

(08-12-2013 03:41 PM)mixduptransistor Wrote:  Why would you want a group of people with whom you have almost nothing in common religiously, culturally, or politically to procreate and create more godless communist heathens?

And who gave you or anyone else the right or imperative to demand that people raise kids if they don't want to? If you have the right to have a dozen kids, I certainly have the right to have none.

(08-12-2013 05:20 PM)dbackjon Wrote:  Much ado about nothing.


All the second generation Hispanic kids I know are just as self-centered, into video games and smart phones as the white ones.

(08-12-2013 05:20 PM)dbackjon Wrote:  All the second generation Hispanic kids I know are just as self-centered, into video games and smart phones as the white ones.

(08-12-2013 06:21 PM)nomad2u2001 Wrote:  I hope to eventually have kids but I'm not making them for anyone else's good.

(08-12-2013 07:23 PM)oklalittledixie Wrote:  

(08-12-2013 06:21 PM)nomad2u2001 Wrote:  I hope to eventually have kids but I'm not making them for anyone else's good.

Including yourself.