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In reply to the discussion: To Conservatives: I do not want kids, so get over it!!!!! [View all]davidn3600
(6,342 posts)There is this part of the social programming that tells us that part of life is sacrificing for the next generation. We are supposed to give up our lives for the children. Therefore when we say we dont want children, it means we are selfish for living life for only ourselves.
Other people think they need children because the children will then take care of their parents later in life. Of course there is no guarantee of this, especially in America. In this country it is encouraged to abandon our parents at age 18. And if we have the money, we throw them in a nursing home when they are old age.
I've seen this go far with employers cutting hours or passing people up for promotion who dont have kids because employers think the man/woman that has kids needs the money more than the person who doesn't.