Vague mention for one of us on the Daily Fail?

Do children really make you happier?

From the ever amsing comments...

I find the expression "breeding", "breeders" etc to be very derogatory and offensive. Ironically it is usually used by people who complain that others don't respect their choices.....
- AMT, UK, 29/7/2010 18:54

Agreed. Actually, there are much worse. I went to some childfree blogs out of curiosity and the terms they use to refer to mums and children are so vulgar that I can't even repeat them here. One user had an aborted fetus as their profile pic with the text "congratulations on your miscarriage" on top. Others joked about violence against children. I have nothing against anybody who doesnt want kids, but this kind of behaviour is sick and repulsive.

I was highly amused by this comment: "Nothing makes me happier than watching my little boys running around together having fun. Sure, we sometimes have tantrums and accidents and things go wrong. But to listen to these 'childless-by-choice' gloaters, you'd think that they never had a miserable or boring moment - that every second of their lives is a thrilling rollercoaster of exotic travelling experiences, eating out every night, and endless entertainment. It's rubbish. How would they pay for it, without going out to work 48 weeks of the year? Do they never have a bad day at work, or a boring meeting, or a pressing deadline? Do they never have to do housework, or laundry, or ironing? Do they never get stuck in a boring airport en route to their adventures, or stress over missing deadlines?

OK childless people - keep telling yourselves that you're happier than the rest of us. But you'll never know for sure - will you?!"

I was extremely amused by that comment. How we pay for our "adventures"....Let's see....I have 4 cats which go through a 20lb bag of cat food every 3 weeks. They're perfectly content with a $1 fake mouse from the pet store, I don't need to buy them a $300 x-box, wii, computer or whatever. I'm not saving for their college education, I don't need to worry about buying them school stuff, school clothes, etc. I also don't have spawn to feed, so that helps my grocery bill considerably. I can feed my S.O. and myself for $50/week and that's with stuff like meat, fresh fruit, etc. We just know how to value shop. ;-) Also, I don't have to buy kinder crap or clothes for my non-existant children. I shop at thrift stores for myself. I get a ton of nice looking stuff (like the $50 shirt for $6) at a fraction of what'd it'd cost if I bought it brand new. So that's how the child-free can afford all of these "adventures" and meals out. Also, I have plenty of bad days. A bad day at a "normal" job, your boss yells at you, a bad day at my job, someone dies. So the moo can put that in her pipe and smoke it.

------- "Proud Member of the Narcan Battalion, You Shoot Up...We Show Up!!!!!"

Just more people getting their panties in a twist over innate, stupid issues. With the way parents lousy parenting nowadays, with the helicopter parenting, worshiping their kid(s) 24/7, no time for adult time, etc, they are setting themselves up for misery.

Also, just another way the Breeders Not Parents secretly show their jealousy over the child-free.

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The one and only Lovetorock

child-freedom is zen.

I believe in karma and practice nirvana.

OK childless people - keep telling yourselves that you're happier than the rest of us. But you'll never know for sure - will you?!"

I knew for sure when I was a teenager babysitting the neighbor's ill-behaved, over-indulged brat. I knew for sure when my church roped me into nursery duty and I was expected to mind the screaming, stinky, sticky toddlers for hours on end. I knew for sure every time I was exposed to a baby, toddler, or young child that I wanted nothing to do with having one in my life on a permanent basis.

No thanks! I know fore sure I am happier without that headache in my life. Don't be jealous that you bowed to societal pressure to breed and those of us with stronger constitutions stuck to our guns and our peaceful lifestyles.

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I was highly amused by this comment: "Nothing makes me happier than watching my little boys running around together having fun. Sure, we sometimes have tantrums and accidents and things go wrong. But to listen to these 'childless-by-choice' gloaters, you'd think that they never had a miserable or boring moment - that every second of their lives is a thrilling rollercoaster of exotic travelling experiences, eating out every night, and endless entertainment. It's rubbish. How would they pay for it, without going out to work 48 weeks of the year? Do they never have a bad day at work, or a boring meeting, or a pressing deadline? Do they never have to do housework, or laundry, or ironing? Do they never get stuck in a boring airport en route to their adventures, or stress over missing deadlines?

OK childless people - keep telling yourselves that you're happier than the rest of us. But you'll never know for sure - will you?!"

I'm glad this person is happy watching her little boys run around. And Childed or Childfree, no doubt a person will have both good and bad moments in their life.

The major difference between the childed and the childfree is the unrelenting pressure and attention whoring by the childed not only to demonize and chastise the childfree, but to vociferously proclaim in public their good parenting skills. I'm tired of babystalking in the supermarket and other public places. You don't see childfree people doing similar types of "stalking" by speaking very loudly and publically about something interesting in their lives to parents walking up and down the aisles.

More importantly, the childfree are fed up with the childed attempting to use education, politics, and public policy to forcibly shift the cost of raising children from their parents to the general public.

I never boast about my lifestyle choice to others, yet the childed (Breeders Not Parents) do so at every whim.

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The one and only Lovetorock

child-freedom is zen.

I believe in karma and practice nirvana.

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OK childless people - keep telling yourselves that you're happier than the rest of us. But you'll never know for sure - will you?!"

I knew for sure when I was a teenager babysitting the neighbor's ill-behaved, over-indulged brat. I knew for sure when my church roped me into nursery duty and I was expected to mind the screaming, stinky, sticky toddlers for hours on end. I knew for sure every time I was exposed to a baby, toddler, or young child that I wanted nothing to do with having one in my life on a permanent basis.

No thanks! I know fore sure I am happier without that headache in my life. Don't be jealous that you bowed to societal pressure to breed and those of us with stronger constitutions stuck to our guns and our peaceful lifestyles.

THIS!!!!!! I also know for sure when I can feel sex because my vag hasn't been stretched to super human proportions and I know i'm pleasing my BF as well, because again, my vag hasn't ruined by a baby coming out of it. I also know for sure because I save a TON of money every month, which will be going into a fund for Chris and I's trip to Egypt. I also know for sure because when we take said trip to Egypt we won't have to hear "mommmmmy!!!!! i'm hungry!!!!! daddy.....i'm tired!!!!! mommy mommy daddy daddy!!!!! the triangle things are BORING!!!!! I wanna go swimming!!!!! IT'S HOTTTTTTT!!!!!!" Nope! All we will hear is the buzz of the outdoor market as we go shopping for treasures to bring back, the music as we go watch some of the finest belly dancers in the world (I'm a belly dancer, so I definitely want to go see some!), the tour guide telling us how the ancient egyptians lived and last but not least, the bed creaking as we are free to have sex because we don't have to keep quiet because of our child sleeping. So....Tell me how i'm missing out on life by not breeding????? Because I don't see where I am.......

------- "Proud Member of the Narcan Battalion, You Shoot Up...We Show Up!!!!!"

HA HAAAA, who had the "Congrats on your miscarriage" icon? I forget.

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HA HAAAA, who had the "Congrats on your miscarriage" icon? I forget.

ROFL LAMO!

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The one and only Lovetorock

child-freedom is zen.

I believe in karma and practice nirvana.

>>>keep telling yourselves that you're happier than the rest of us. But you'll never know for sure - will you?!"

um, yes i will and do know. you'll never ever know "what could have been" if you lived you life sans the drudge.

If I hear another woman say, "I was gonna be a _________________, but I got married and had Bratney and Bratford" Or, " I used to be a ____________, but now I'm not" Or, "I wish I could __________________, like we always used to before the kyddies, but we never do anymore", it will be too soon.

if they are so happy, why are they constantly bitchin all the time when I see them? Let's not for get TMC and TDC! Yes, we do know we are happier. and if I'm irritated or bored at the airport, I can get away from my source of boredom/irritation, you can't do that w/ the brats and you know it.

And, truly, the only thing that made me irritated and unhappy when i was younger, was moos trying to recruit me for the moomie brigade against my will because misery loves company and I couldn't understand why they wouldn't leave me alone about it.

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