So don't apologize. Sorry. Oops, there I go again.
Motherhood isn't supposed to be a lonely isolated thing; we evolved to be surrounded by our family and friends to help out and it's only in the last century that we've been so drained going against evolution. Yeah, no kidding. And I don't know about you, but one thing I remember very clearly in Kingston was that it got awfully lonely being a non-native-Kingstonite parent sometimes. I tried to get a babysitting co-op up at one point in time, and it went nowhere because almost all the moms I knew said, "Good idea! Of course, I don't need it - my mom lives five minutes away, she's always happy to take the kids whenever I need a break."
Even childfree people can't argue with not paying education taxes when they don't have children, it's like paying back what you got 25 years ago. Yes, they can argue with it, and many do. Because that was then, and this is now, and back then it was somebody else's money that went towards their education, and now it's their own money and that makes all the difference in the world.
Somebody in linaelyn's comments discussion said they knew a woman who believed her money shouldn't go to other people's kids even though she had a grown child who was educated in the public school system. The fact that other people helped her and her kid out with their tax dollars back then? Irrelevant.
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Sorry. Oops, there I go again.
Motherhood isn't supposed to be a lonely isolated thing; we evolved to be surrounded by our family and friends to help out and it's only in the last century that we've been so drained going against evolution.
Yeah, no kidding. And I don't know about you, but one thing I remember very clearly in Kingston was that it got awfully lonely being a non-native-Kingstonite parent sometimes. I tried to get a babysitting co-op up at one point in time, and it went nowhere because almost all the moms I knew said, "Good idea! Of course, I don't need it - my mom lives five minutes away, she's always happy to take the kids whenever I need a break."
Even childfree people can't argue with not paying education taxes when they don't have children, it's like paying back what you got 25 years ago.
Yes, they can argue with it, and many do. Because that was then, and this is now, and back then it was somebody else's money that went towards their education, and now it's their own money and that makes all the difference in the world.
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