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I don't feel as if I had to succumb to pressure to come to my decision of wanting children. It is much simpler than that. I love kids. I love babies, and toddlers, and children, and some teenagers, as well. I feel as if I have a lot that I can teach a child, and a lot that I can learn from a child.
Really, what society does or thinks does not have a big effect on me. Society has decided to do many things I don't want to do- they have idolized girls like Britney Spears and they have made it cool to act like the person next to you instead of like yourself. So my decision to want a baby and want to get married have nothing to do with what the rest of society thinks I want. In fact, if I could afford it, I would have a baby tomorrow.
I also don't think that the whole 2.5 kids and white picket fence thing has to apply to a married couple with children either. I know that I will not be like a normal parent- I am probably going to be more of a friend to my kids than anything. In my future, I see myself fighting over the Nintendo with my kids, and my dream house- even with a family- would be a big giant art deco studio apartment in the downtown old market area.
I can see why you think that society pressures women to feel this way, but in a lot of cases, it does not. It all depends on what perspective you look at it from, and how clean your glasses are.
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