Article on Childfree Women

[lizardesque]

I thought many of you ladies might find this interesting.
www.theatlantic.com/entertainment/archive/2015/04/why-women-arent-having-children/390765/

However, I couldn't help but be a tad baffled by this statement: “As we age,” she writes, “we are apt to look back on our pasts and question, not, did I serve family, God, and country, but did I ever get to Cuba, or run a marathon? Did I take up landscape painting? Was I fat? We will assess the success of our lives in accordance not with whether they were righteous, but whether they were interesting and fun.”

WTF is "Was I fat?" doing in that list of questions? Is being fat interesting and fun or not interesting and fun? I suppose if you're fat while painting landscapes and simultaneously running a marathon in Cuba, that would be interesting, but the same thing could be said about doing those things while thin.

[RoxMonster]

Yeah, that quote was weird.

I liked the rest of it. I follow quite a few child-free blogs and have been seeing more and more articles posted online in support of CFBC couples. I like that it said some people don't want to have kids simply because they don't want to, and that reason is enough. I feel that a lot of CFBC people feel the need to come up with a ton of reasons to "defend" their decision in a way, and while you may have many other valid reasons, simply not wanting them is enough. Many people who HAVE kids have them simply because they want them, so the opposite should also be enough of a reason.

[sapphire bou]

Thanks for sharing!

[MyName]

Apr 19, 2015 11:52:21 GMT -5 lizardesque said:

I thought many of you ladies might find this interesting.
www.theatlantic.com/entertainment/archive/2015/04/why-women-arent-having-children/390765/

However, I couldn't help but be a tad baffled by this statement: “As we age,” she writes, “we are apt to look back on our pasts and question, not, did I serve family, God, and country, but did I ever get to Cuba, or run a marathon? Did I take up landscape painting? Was I fat? We will assess the success of our lives in accordance not with whether they were righteous, but whether they were interesting and fun.”

WTF is "Was I fat?" doing in that list of questions? Is being fat interesting and fun or not interesting and fun? I suppose if you're fat while painting landscapes and simultaneously running a marathon in Cuba, that would be interesting, but the same thing could be said about doing those things while thin.

Because vain is the new selfish!

I didn't even read the article yet, but that is my guess.

[treedimensional]

That entire rant is bizarre, not just the "fat" part.
It sounds as if the author should be citing some research after writing "we are APT to..." and "we WILL assess the success..." Says WHO? I want her/him to back up this claim with a peer reviewed study.