Comments on: Why I’m not having kids

By: GWB

GWB — Fri, 01 Feb 2013 16:16:11 +0000

But I will have a lot more attention and money to shower on real-life nieces, nephews, mentees and philanthropic causes.

Aren't those the goofy-looking seal-like critters that live in Florida? She's trading her own kid for an ugly seal?

By: Bulletchaser

Bulletchaser — Fri, 01 Feb 2013 15:04:16 +0000

I feel for her husband when she hits her low-carbon and childless mid-40s.

rogerb on January 31, 2013 at 11:19 PM

Why? She’ll probably find he’s increased carbon footprints behind her back with another woman half her carbon footprint. He’ll be in an unsustainable situation, much to his carbon credit.

mintycrys on January 31, 2013 at 11:26 PM

Now THAT is funny!

By: rockmom

rockmom — Fri, 01 Feb 2013 15:02:44 +0000

Where to start? I was this person when I was 30. Happily married, no interest in being a parent, ambitious in my career. Always finding reasons to wait to have kids. And when I finally did get pregnant after 9 years of marriage at age 35, quite by accident, I had a horrible beginning with severe nausea and two hospitalizations. The troubled pregnancy ended up costing me my job when I was just 2 months away from delivery and was closing on my first house. I ended up unemployed for a year and pretty broke.

I could have just thrown in the towel and said, boy, it sure looks like I am just not meant for motherhood and it’s ruining my life.

Thank God I didn’t do that. Although my career was certainly shifted to a lower gear because I went through with that child and then had another (cost me another job, too) I have never, ever regretted it. My biggest regret now is that I waited so long to have kids and didn’t have more at a younger age.

I have drilled both of my kids that they should marry young and have a lot of kids. They don’t have to “give up” anything and they will “get” more than anything they might give up anyway.

By: Axeman

Axeman — Fri, 01 Feb 2013 14:52:19 +0000

I don’t have kids, so that I can you all as my children through nanny government!!

By: lynncgb

lynncgb — Fri, 01 Feb 2013 14:49:49 +0000

not having a child is the most important thing I could do to reduce my carbon footprint,

Poor dear…something’s not right in the head.

By: Lucano

Lucano — Fri, 01 Feb 2013 14:32:19 +0000

I think Ashley Judd wrote that .

By: Paul-Cincy

Paul-Cincy — Fri, 01 Feb 2013 14:01:12 +0000

Why I ~~’m not having kids~~ don't understand what life's about.

By: Hill60

Hill60 — Fri, 01 Feb 2013 13:48:40 +0000

I’m blessed with a wonderful daughter, and couldn’t begin to imagine my life without her. The writer will certainly be missing out on something far more fulfilling than being successful in her professional career – but that’s certainly her choice.

By: ProfShadow

ProfShadow — Fri, 01 Feb 2013 13:13:16 +0000

Well,
If she’s really concerned about her carbon footprint, then she needs to quit using up so much electricity writing this crap.

Reduce her carbon footprint by living under a bridge. Scrounging in trash bins at McDonalds, etc.

Yeah, lots of ways to reduce her footprint.

Now, if I was a Liberal, I’d suggest she reduce her carbon footprint by just jumping into a river and floating down to the sea and become food for various carnivores. But I’m not a Liberal.

By: p0s3r

p0s3r — Fri, 01 Feb 2013 12:46:41 +0000

How disturbing is it when you see that the draw of the Cult of Global Warming is so powerful that some people are willing to forsake one of their most basest instincts?