The "lusting for grandchildren" movement is alive and well:

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/05/14/us/eager-for-grandchildren-and-putting-daughters-eggs-in-freezer.html?_r=1&hpw


"Everybody wants to experience being a grandparent."

Wrong, Gloria. Stop speaking for all women.

BTW anyone else catch that fucking gargantuan oil painting of Gloria's daughter Jennifer Hayes? I'm surprised she wasn't bronzed and placed on some oversized pedestal for the photography shot.

Some of the NYT comments are snarky but there's plenty of retarded ones, too.

My name isn't everyone..

two cents ¢¢

CERTIFIED HOSEHEAD!!!

people (especially women) do not give ONE DAMN about what they inflict on children
and I defy anyone to prove me wrong:

The selfish wants of adults outweigh the needs of the child.

If I want to hear the pitter-patter of little feet I'll put shoes on my pets.

Mankind and its needs (wants) are like unto a black hole. It devours all available resources and it never is full: it merely grows larger and demands more.

Definition of 'wealthy': Anyone who makes more/has more than you do.

Someone pointed out that I'm a realist. And all along I thought I was just a pessimist crossed with a cynic.

Entitlement, thy name is mooooooooooooooo

"Fathom the hypocrisy of a government that requires every citizen to prove
they are insured... but not everyone must prove they are a citizen.
Add to this that, many of those who refuse or are unable to prove they are
citizens, will receive free insurance paid for by those who are.""

Politicians are like diapers: both need changing regularly.

Anyone else here who realized that her parents wanted grandbrats because:

1. they are bored and grandbrats are a distraction, and

2. they (especially moo) want YOU to "finally see what it's like" to succumb to a life that revolves around changing diapers, running around after brats and generally trading your awesome life for a moo's life?

"I have 26 grandbabies!"

oh fuck.

Old hags, you are leaving behind a VERY overpopulated world, thank you very much.

"Everybody wants to experience being a grandparent."

1) WRONGO, BONGO!

2) Even if so, IT ISN'T YOUR DECISION!

"anyone else catch that fucking gargantuan oil painting of Gloria's daughter Jennifer Hayes?"

CREEPY.

I've heard the "so then you can know what it's like!" and "lol you'll see what it's like dealing with a baby like you were!" and varieties of this from my mom all the time. That makes *no* sense. It's a bingo with no basis in reality. And it's really fucking creepy how obsessive people get over wanting grandchildren. I mean...wtf?
My mom used the "so you can know what it's like!" bingo on me recently. The "actually I plan on getting sterilized when I can afford it" response made her very unhappy. Seriously, mom, be happy for my life, not for the potential doings of my uterus. lame.

seriously though this is really creepy and wtf.

Breeders just want someone else to go through hell like they did. This is just another shining example of how parents don't want the best for us...they just want to look good in front of other breeders. It's all about them and what they want. This is beyond creepy. Freezing your daughter's eggs? You must have no life of your own if you are that obsessed with another adult's sex life and sex organs. bitch moos,

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I've heard the "so then you can know what it's like!" and "lol you'll see what it's like dealing with a baby like you were!" and varieties of this from my mom all the time. That makes *no* sense. It's a bingo with no basis in reality.

In most cases, it is actually less of a bingo and more of a hostile, malicious wish for a person to experience something noxious.

How many parents say to their daughters that they want them to experience hand-gliding, oil painting, salsa dancing, finishing a PhD, etc., with that same desperate, almost insane, tone?

What it boils down to is a desire to exact revenge on the object of what they consider a bad experience. A child (female, mostly) should NOT get away with not suffering the same drudgery

It is nothing more than jealousy and immaturity.

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Breeders just want someone else to go through hell like they did. This is just another shining example of how parents don't want the best for us...they just want to look good in front of other breeders. It's all about them and what they want. This is beyond creepy. Freezing your daughter's eggs? You must have no life of your own if you are that obsessed with another adult's sex life and sex organs. bitch moos,

Plus the helicopter parenting of an adult child - yep that smacks of boredom all right.

So glad my parents had real lives, whatever else their shortcomings were.