That is SO FUCKING AWESOME!!!

I must admit that I have witnessed parents doing exactly what you just said. I was a nanny for a very dear friend of mine for a couple of years. Both of us were a part of a larger group of women. She was the one out of all of us who met her partner early on and started having kids early (the rest of us didn't start…

Yes, I know. I've lived a VAST majority of my life below the poverty line. I barely live above it now. We are talking about a woman who is bragging about her trip to Tibet and saying she couldn't go if she had a kid, glomming onto the wrong-headed trope that once you have children you can no longer do adventurous…

You started talking to me, not the other way around. Feel free to make the choice to stop anytime. It won't cost you a thing.

Yeah, I do not regret my daughter at all. So maybe it's not defensiveness I feel. Maybe it's more along the lines of disdain.

I am an adult, who makes choices, who pays rent and pays for health insurance. And while there are some things I will choose to no longer do because I have my daughter, like, run off to Ferguson to march with everyone against police brutality and anti-Black cops, or join a Gaza flotilla brigade, traveling just isn't…

I guess I get defensive with childless people who go on and on and on about it because it feels like they need to bash the decision to have children in order to make themselves feel OK about their decision not to.

Me and none of my friends are beyond working class. And I guess that's it right there, you listed your priorities. If the maintenance of your lifestyle is your first priority then you will ultimately have to put limitations on other things, or just not do those other things at all.

Then justify it specifically to the people giving you shit and leave the rest of us alone. If you are happy with your decision that is awesome, but pushing back on the decision I am happy with making strikes me as a little disingenuous and often makes me feel like some childless people really aren't all that thrilled…

THAAAAAAAAAANK YOU!!!!!! For saying this. I don't care or mind AT ALL that other people do not, or may not, or even regret that they have children. It is none of my business. But good goddamn if it doesn't seem like many childless people go out of their way to be dicks about people who do have children. If I get…

The thing is though, while these women have choices (albeit perhaps limited choices) their children do not. So, just out of decency and respect for the human beings they brought into this world they should attempt to be as discreet and compassionate as possible when it comes to airing their regrets. All of us have…

A dear friend of mine is a working class single mother who just got back from 4 months of travel in India and Tibet with her 1 year old son, so. I guess I don't understand this wrong-headed idea that a person can no longer do the things they wanted to do childless now that they have a child... Men are most certainly…

wait... the Mexicans have a paratrooper program??

Yeah, modern missionary work in Uganda has done them SO well. GTFO

Fuck you. Come pay for & raise all the unwanted babies then asshole.

Why are you being an asshole? I was raised by a single mom who was stressed the fuck out whenever she was around. I loved her and she loved me but it was nice not to have her tired nagging ass around so much. I cooked dinner for me and my brother shortly before my mom would get home.

we ran around all over the place, including parks.

Yes it is. It is even healthy for kids. My mom worked hospice care in a private home and we lived 3 blocks away. Another 6 blocks away was my elementary school and a park, so there were 3 playgrounds with a ditch/levee running through. Another 1/4 mile past that was my grandparents house. This was the NUCLEUS of my…

^ When the reply overtakes the original comment.

I'm 36, no "Spring chicken" myself and I honestly do not know why these things still blow my mind. It's like my mind refuses to wrap itself around the world we live in... I read the news ALL the time, so I'm not hiding under a rock. I guess I don't know why I still hold out some hope for the human species.