What are the ethics of child free couples? I personally believe it is unethical to be "child free". I believe it is selfish and frankly quite sickening.
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Well I for one don't give two squirts what you think. I'm childless and I like it just fine. I think your attitude is sickening. Just because you are capable of knocking someone up, that makes you a step above somehow? You have some better sense of morals or ethics then I or my wife? To me you sound like a bitter jack-off who probably wishes he had the balls to have kept his family from growing to 7 screaming kids.
Unfortunately, there's no way to possibly support that belief. But then, if you're posting on Christian Forums, that's probably par for the course for you.
Ethics like those of my aunt, who was made a hysterectomy, or my friend, who has suffered a cancer and can´t have children because she may die. Or ethics like those of my best friend in college, who can have eviction any time at all.
My partner and I are fence-sitters on the whole child v. childfree thing. We don't want one right now, but in the future, who knows? Probably we won't. But that's our choice and no one else's. Personally, I'd rather go to Fiji for our tenth anniversary.
Which one of our dear members said something to the effect of not wanting to "pop a screaming, hairless crotch monkey out of [her] vagina"?
Fuck you. You're a judgemental prick (an un-Christian virtue, might I add.)
How is it any more selfish than filling up the world with more unneeded children just so you can have little versions of yourself running around?
The ethics of child free couples are quite variable. They are not a monolithic block of clones. They are people.
"What are the ethics of child free couples?"Probably not much different than the general population. Sometimes, more environmentally attuned.
"I personally believe it is unethical to be "child free"."
That's because you are a judgemental fucktard and you don't know the definition of ethics.
"I believe it is selfish and frankly quite sickening."
Good. I hope you continue to be sick. Frankly, you are the one who is being selfish and I think you are a sick fucker.
Um, just what gives you the right to breed like some kind of sex crazed animal?
I personally don't care either way; Its up to my mate. If she wants'em, I'll be right there with her to help. If not, no problem either. I'll be happy either way.
I personally believe that it's unethical to selfishly want your own flesh and blood when there's plenty of children who need to be adopted. I personally believe it's unethical to add to an already overpopulated planet. I personally believe it's unethical to command me to have a child that I cannot afford. Given the likelihood that any child my marriage would produce would be autistic, my ethics don't allow me to play Russian roulette with our genes. God forbid some couples think critically before squeezing out screaming poop factories.
Haha. I was waiting for someone to bring up the Duggars. They are far from alone, it's just unusual for full-quiver families to pimp themselves out to television. They normally prefer to live a quiet life, helping their communities and living as they feel is right. Don't worry, the US births are still below replacement level despite the full-quiver movement.
I don't like or dislike children as a whole. Kids are individuals. Some are awesome; some are awful. Babies are screaming poop factories, though. They scream, poop, and do very little else.
I'm inclined to agree with TheMissus. Kids (you know, once they're capable of doing something besides screaming, soiling themselves, and puking) are awesome. Babies, on the other hand... not my thing.
I guess some babies scream and poop and little else; my daughter rarely cried, she smiled and cooed a lot, she nursed happily, slept a lot...well whatever. Depends on your experience I guess. There's nothing selfish in having children though, just as it isn't selfish to not have children.
Such a cute bunch of kids. Well, if people want to be respected for their child-free choice (and they should) those who choose otherwise deserve respect as well. And since US births are still below population replacement level (as in much of the industrialized world) it's not harming anyone else. They pay for their own kids (debt-free, with money they've earned in the past as well as money they make pimping out to TV) so they're not even draining government programs. Or is turnabout fair play? (i.e. You don't want child-free criticized but do want to criticize those who have many children?) Peace Lover should mind her own business and so should everyone else; having children is the decision made between the people having them and people should mind their own business about it.
I want children someday (hell, I'm only 22) but ZOMG! I realize not everyone else is like me. Radical notion, I know, "peacelover".
Watch the Duggars sometime. Whenever they go shopping, they clean the place out leaving almost nothing for other customers to buy. Everytime they go out they expect everyone who crosses their path to accommodate them. Once of the most egocentric families I've ever seen. Even when they do go to "help" others it's more about their own righteousness than about other people's needs. I was disgusted to see them parading some poor Central American family across the screen, and showing the whole world their private business. The mom looked more embarrassed than grateful. They're about as selfish as they come.
As for me, being child free, I've shelled out thousands in baby shower gifts for family and friends, and presents for my nieces and nephews, and given up countless hours of my time to babysitting, getting very little in return (not counting hugs and thank-yous). So how am I the selfish one again?
I kinda hate you right now, even though hatred is normally against my nature.
Are you as peace loving as I am, perchance? Do you abhor war, murder, violence, weapons, capital punishments, etc?
Because when I met my wife, she had already had her own child and a great career, and was in her 40s.
As I didn't want to take away from her career, nor to have the ever-increasing chance that any child we had would have some sort of birth defects, that was our choice to make.
So eff you and the horse you rode in on. Feel free to keep your belief, but don't expect me to have any sort of care of how you view our marriage.
I don't agree with PeaceLover02's comment - and I've never wanted to have kids - but the "child frees" are crazier than ape shit. On their forums they go on and on about how much they hate ALL children and ALL parents. They have entire threads about how terrible it is that they have to see children in public. Then they whine about how persecuted they are (which reminds me a lot of the fundies, actually). I'm kind of surprised that no quotes from "child free" forums have ended up here.
“What are the ethics of child free couples?”
“I personally believe it is unethical to be "child free".”
“I believe it is selfish”
“and frankly quite sickening.”
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