http://www.usnews.com/blogs/erbe/2008/8/20/were-child-free-not-childless
There are 18 comments, including mine. (You won't believe the guy who
posted just before I did - though he may just be trying to bait female
readers. Then again, that magazine DOES have a pretty conservative
following....) You may want to add your own, since the magazine is
reasonably well-known.
Here are some nicer comments:
of NY
Aug 20, 2008 22:41:47 PM
I wish we could come up with a truly neutral term. Calling the women
in the census data "childfree" is not fair, either. Many of those
women will go on to have children, did suffer from infertility, or
made a choice too colored by life cir***stances (i.e. career, not
finding a mate) to be comfortable with the more affirmative term.
But since the term "childless" implies something lacking, it does
still ring a bit harsh for those who have chosen not to have children.
At this point, I am beginning to see it more as a traditional term
that has taken on an umbrella meaning (such as defaulting to a male
pronoun).
We are starting to see groups entitled "Childless not by choice" That
does strongly imply that people are starting to associate the word
childlessness with the voluntary decision not to parent, or at least
to stop assuming it is due to infertility.
Andrea of AZ
Aug 22, 2008 15:22:51 PM
A friend of mine who is a police officer told me how a fellow cop was
heckling him about having kids. He kept asking why, giving reasons why
he should, and my friend finally turned to him and said "Why is it so
im****tant to you for me to have children?" That shut the guy right up.
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Lenona.
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