Imagine a world in which, one day, you learned you’d eventually be expected to give birth to, then raise, an ostrich. It would be a long-lived ostrich, one residing with you inside your home for at least eighteen years.
KateDorrell is this thread what you're talking about?
I am 61, and a male& so I can be ignored ... but think very carefully, because when you get to my age and you have no family as I know for many women who made that choice not to have children their lives are lonely living nightmares.
I'd much rather have a cat. 🐱
The arguments about saving the planet by not having children is the lamest excuse for the greedy and insatiable consumerism, across the board. Individually, choice does exist to be a parent or not. But the content of those choices sometimes leaves me scratching my head.
and you are free to do so, although I think you are wrong
Liberals remember: one child less - for the environment, and a better future without liberals.
This is an unambiguous good. Liberals and progressives should be encouraged not to reproduce. And their loathsome ideology shall die with them. Meanwhile Conservatives and Christians shall inherit the world. And shape it to their liking.
I decided to be childfree when I was 9 years old! Now, I'm over 40, I still get asked why I don't have kids, and get called a wierdo! I'm an Environmental Scientist, suss it out. 🤔🙄🤨😠 childfree overpopulation
I have one and I can’t imagine the life without it. But if you don’t have one you can totally enjoy your life without it. There are two different worlds and it’s upto you where you’re going to be. I can safely say if you come to my world you can never go back.
Thank goodness for that
I love my kids so much, they've added so much pure love and pleasure to my life!
Child-'free' people are like people who think love is overrated, because they've never loved. They're so rational, superior, free, unattached...unrooted, unbelonging, unreal. Untouched by a child's first smile. Un-living.
57, no children, no regrets. I don't wrap it up, or hide it I just say I've never wanted them. My choice
I am over 60 and have never regretted not having children but that is my individual choice. Most women-and men do want children and the vast majority of people I know who have children love them fiercely. I believe as a society we should support mothers as much as we can
Societal collapse in 3 2 1
The childfree die unmourned and unmissed, garbage for History's dustbin. Unlike celibacy (which is self-sacrificing), to be childfree is to want sex, but not its natural result. Rather as Romans at banquets puked into vomitoria, so as to be able to eat even more !
If you don't want to have children, don't - but please don't pretend that your childlessness is motivated by concern over climate change ! It's motivated by selfishness; and the article is the last self-serving groan of a doomed and decadent class in a doomed and decadent West.
Children aren't ostriches; they're human beings - though in view of her hatred for children, is the writer of the article ?
Your body your choice I say
StefanMolyneux Your wheelhouse.
I wish raising kids was as easy as raising an ostrich...
The hate on this conment thread 🙄 It's as if women are still expected to have kids as part of a life-script. How dare we deviate! It's not natural! It's insulting! We'll regret it when we're old! We must be ill/depressed! We have a superiority complex! We are missing out!
You are universally supported in your decision.
Great article.
More women are miserable nowadays
Fantastic. Let the 'refugees' have their 8+ Don't complain in the future.
God said replenish the earth. Of course ,it is a personal choose. I had my children later on life and grew up and learned ot from them.
Hardly surprising. Generation debt started working through a global recession with likely a second on the way. How can you start planning to start a family when you're spending more than half your income to rent a shoe box in a shared house with 4 other people?
I opted out long ago, looks boring, unpleasant and 30 years of grief
Personally I don't think so... I think it's the age where woman are making the conscious choice to chase careers and fulfilment only to realise when its biologically difficult or even too late to have a family naturally. For me, I'm biased... and heartbroken too.
Wait until the gov realized that aging society like Japan happen. Old people steal to live better in jail. Gov can’t tax enough, so immigrants will be needed when women opt out children lol
Best choice I ever made.
What a horrible phrase, 'child free.' It suggests a child is a burden from which someone needs to be free, rather than a vulnerable little individual trusting you to launch it into the world, teach it what little you know and protect it until it jumps out of the nest.
make love, not babies 👍🏼
poor mother(s) of yours. how stupid it was not to make abortion.
Can’t afford them. Too late for me
Every female i've met that told me they didn't see themselves having children were on antidepressants. Only a few but still very worrying.
Who is going to pay your pension or look after you when your old. Kind of a dumb look being smug about not having children when you DEPEND on others to do so. We have a declining pop in the uk do your bit for the society that gave u so much.
Yes please
She complains about having kids being a moral imperative but the whole article is like climate change bad, me good, people with kids bad. Then it goes to say having a kid is like having an ostrich. This is the most stupid article I've read this July.
You're damned with either choice - people will call you selfish if you have children or don't. I am optimistic that we can stop climate change (solutions exist!), but I am trying to be realistic that I and my children must consume less and make sacrifices for the environment
Your agenda is pretty clear here
ChildLESS
Oh don’t worry plenty of tramps out there happy to have 6 kids plus and happy to let everyone else pick up the tab
Sure seems like some society's / countrys' publications push less baby making. Odd.
If any parent called me selfish for being childfree, I’d assume they were jealous and regretting having them. Why else would they be so irritated by my choice?
It was always the case but unsaid. Women could not claim their wish but only pretend being satisfied with the Life they were told to agree with😏
You start out by comparing a child to an ostrich, and how terrible it would be to raise one. You finish with some nonsense about morals and the environment, to act like your choice is righteous? Which is it? Why not just be honest - the planet is not a factor in your decision.
Better that than have kids and then whine about having to be with them or complain the school isn’t around to babysit. When you make the choice to have kids, you are responsible for that next generation RU up for the task? If not, make sure you opt out permanently.
I think it is the age of having this option and choice of your own path
Ppl who *really* dont want children really shouldnt, but oh my what a joy what a complete and utter great time I am having as a dad. Best thing i ever did . Would break my heart if they didnt experience the joy they gave me raising them.
More human dissociation propaganda.
No, it never is... God blessed them; and God said to them, 'Be fruitful and multiply, and fill the earth, and subdue it; and rule over the fish of the sea and over the birds of the sky and over every living thing that moves on the earth.' Genesis 1:28
I think its great that some people take themselves out the genepool and maybe the government starts to appreciate those more who get kids.
I agree: women shouldn’t be patronised by strangers telling them what they really want or need to feel fulfilled: not everyone is called to parenting, or marriage. But using the word “childfree” and comparing childrearing to raising an “ostrich” is part of the narrative...
Go Forth And Multiply🤪🤪🤪
Congratulations to all these women! I always thought that the biggest protest against the patriarchy is a woman’s choice to opt out. Men depend on women’s womb to keep this shitty planet’s status quo.
The best thing *anyone* can do for the environment is not have children. But that’s not why I didn’t. I never wanted children. Have no maternal instincts at all, and am constantly grateful to the women who went before, and campaigned for me to have that choice.
Natural selection, genetic dead-ends will remove themselves from the gene pool, probably for the best.
Freedom to choose
2020, the age of “Happiness”
Very well written, and spot on. I'm 47, completely child free, no regrets at all. I think it's even more selfish to have a child as a 'mini me', or even for the sake of the 'family name'. The planet does not need more ppl. We're the most destructive species on earth.
They ain't in woogey countries
Your business, your life.
Women ensure the survival and continuation of people and a nation. Mothers are priceless and should be valued.
That's OK. There are millions of women in Africa willing to have 10+ kids each and those kids will soon find their way to your city.
This article is about 20 years too old
South Korea has the lowest birth rate in the world. Don’t worry
No they're not. Most women in middle age who don't have kids are more depressed then women of the same age who have kids. This is a fact proven through many studies.
It's economic realism. Freedom has never been free & being child free offends like loud curry farts in the lift.
Ummm... What?
We don't need any more people thanks, reproduction might be your right but don't feel the need
It is the result of media dumbenning.
We adopted 4 kids. A lot of the new generation choices to be child free but isn’t smart enough to use protection.
haha! u can either be present on social media or be there for your children! FOMO
How will you feel when you are 65?
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