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Originally posted by splck
I think you answered your own question in your third paragraph, just read what you said bellow
Where did you get this info, I'd be interested in reading it.
Again, I think this answers your question.
I underestand and accept your choice for not wanting children, but I think you're making it sound alot worse than it actually is.
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I'll admit, I'm lost. Where in my post did I explain how it is SELFISH of someone to not want children? Oh wait, you mean because I said raising kids is hard? Because I said if you don't have kids you have a lot more resources? Well hey, duh. If you don't have a kid, the money you would have spent on the kid can now be spent for other stuff. And anyone who doesn't think raising kids is hard is a moron.
If you wanna talk selfish, I say the selfish ones are the idiots who have kids for no good reason and who then neglect to raise the kids at all. They let the kids run all over everywhere, screaming and being general twits in public with NO corrective actions on the part of the parents, who sit there grinning idiotically as though their child is the most precious thing on the planet and can do no wrong. This is child abuse, because the kid's not being taught how to act in a civilized world, which cannot in any way be interpreted as a good thing.
Selfish would be the people that have a kid because they WANT one even though they don't have anywhere near the financial resources to take care of it, or even though they then plop the kid in daycare from 3 months to highschool so they can go do what they want to do.
I've been talking today with a woman who dropped her kid in fullcare (some stupid program where other people raise your kid for you) so she could work and go to school full time. She "oopsed" her (now ex) husband to have the kid, then dumped the kid on anyone who'd take care of him. Now she wonders why, at age 16, the kid can't stand her.
Selfish is NOT making the mature and responsible decision NOT to have kids.