There are a lot of things in this world I have no interest in whatsoever. I feel the same way about casino gambling and NASCAR ::chuckling:: good one :)
Because having kids is the default ... I think it is overall, but it also really depends on your social surroundings/generation. Plenty of people my age are only just now deciding to maybe start a family. Most of the people I grew up with are still not interested, and many have declared childfreedom to be their life choice. As they're quickly running out of time to have them (I'm 34) I'd tend to believe they're serious ;)
"You’ll change your mind someday, and you’ll be sorry." Not as sorry as if you'd had kids and then changed your mind and realized you didn't want them after all.
“People who don’t have kids don’t make any contribution to society.” There's got to be some statistical comeback here, about how much childfree folk contribute financially at the very least, seeing as how most (women, at least) are able to climb a little higher in their fields and get paid somewhat more - and don't have it siphoned off in day care and diapers and college tuition.
Not to mention contributing through volunteering and other non-tangibles.
If parents think there’s an anti-parent sentiment out there, well, all I can say is – welcome to what it looks like from here. There's both. I think the underlying lesson here is, people are jerks.
the parent card trumps anything in our deck I really, really think it depends where you are. It may trump anything else in many (or rather, most) workplaces, but it also dooms you in many other situations. Including situations where you'd think it would be an asset to have children. One school I did a placement in had an unofficial policy of never hiring parents of young (ie, under 15) children, no matter what their work habits or reliability were like, because "how can you be a good teacher if you've got children of your own to take care of?"
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::chuckling:: good one :)
Because having kids is the default
... I think it is overall, but it also really depends on your social surroundings/generation. Plenty of people my age are only just now deciding to maybe start a family. Most of the people I grew up with are still not interested, and many have declared childfreedom to be their life choice. As they're quickly running out of time to have them (I'm 34) I'd tend to believe they're serious ;)
"You’ll change your mind someday, and you’ll be sorry."
Not as sorry as if you'd had kids and then changed your mind and realized you didn't want them after all.
“People who don’t have kids don’t make any contribution to society.”
There's got to be some statistical comeback here, about how much childfree folk contribute financially at the very least, seeing as how most (women, at least) are able to climb a little higher in their fields and get paid somewhat more - and don't have it siphoned off in day care and diapers and college tuition.
Not to mention contributing through volunteering and other non-tangibles.
If parents think there’s an anti-parent sentiment out there, well, all I can say is – welcome to what it looks like from here.
There's both. I think the underlying lesson here is, people are jerks.
the parent card trumps anything in our deck
I really, really think it depends where you are. It may trump anything else in many (or rather, most) workplaces, but it also dooms you in many other situations. Including situations where you'd think it would be an asset to have children. One school I did a placement in had an unofficial policy of never hiring parents of young (ie, under 15) children, no matter what their work habits or reliability were like, because "how can you be a good teacher if you've got children of your own to take care of?"