Comments on: “Why the planet needs more non-breeders”

By: JD

JD — Fri, 29 Jul 2011 00:41:40 +0000

I’m a non-breeder by choice and it does seem to me a bit of a shame to use (even for rhetorical purposes) “we” to mean “(apparently) the majority” (i.e. “you’d think that we’d thank all the selfless people…”, “We still think that there is something wrong with people [who] don’t want kids.”) Both these statements are untrue (for me anyway). So where does that leave us non-members of ‘we’? Answer: completely alienated. The other problem with this is that it can sound like the editorial ‘we’ that so many people use, i.e. it can sound like an expression of the writer’s opinion.

By: stuntcat

stuntcat — Thu, 28 Jul 2011 22:38:56 +0000

I would not give the rest of this century to my innocent child if my life depended on it. I have so much respect now for people who care enough for the environment, and are honest enough about the future, to sacrifice making little copies of themselves. THE most selfish thing that educated 1st-worlders can do from now on is make more babies.

By: Sam Wood

Sam Wood — Thu, 28 Jul 2011 16:11:31 +0000

Have kids! It’s an experience like no other. The earth is going to be fine for your lifetime and several lifetimes over, so its not like it will matter to you what happens. Get over the whole “environmental” thing and just have children. It’s like having a pet, but better!

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Noe Prescod — Tue, 29 Jun 2010 15:13:29 +0000

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By: one free bitch

one free bitch — Sat, 29 May 2010 22:40:32 +0000

think transgenderd males…we are geting more and more like women and hopefuly will take the place of out of control breeding women..gay is the way…a lot of trannies look feel and act just like women…who needs all paine and grief…free bith

By: erin

erin — Mon, 21 Sep 2009 06:58:29 +0000

My partner and I have been together for 4 years and we have both decided not to have children. For us there are many reasons not to – we save money, we have our freedom, and we focus on each other as individuals rather than “parents”. We have a cat, and plan to get a dog further down the track, and that will be more than enough for us. We love our life. I don’t think it’s “weird” at all.

By: valy

valy — Fri, 07 Aug 2009 11:48:51 +0000

Cameron Diaz had found another reason why I woman should not have a baby. For me I think she has alway the right idea about maternity. Very interesting! As Cameron i don’t think I’m gonna be a mother in my life, so I think this could be another valid reason I could say when people ask me if I want kids.This article should be readed by those women and men who say that maternity is the main experience a woman becomes complete with.

By: mia

mia — Fri, 24 Jul 2009 00:35:24 +0000

I personally don’t think it should be necessary to give reasons why not to have children. Its a very personal choice, but every time I say that I really don’t want to have kids, people glare and demand my reasoning. Screw reasoning. Not all women are natural nurturers.

By: RebJ

RebJ — Thu, 23 Jul 2009 03:07:30 +0000

There’s plenty of kids out there, they just need to be distributed more evenly into the rest of the world through adoption.

By: pmsrhino

pmsrhino — Wed, 22 Jul 2009 14:22:05 +0000

I’m a proud non-breeder. And the thing about adopting children has always been a key point for me. I would never want to bring a new person into this world (it’s hella messed up) but I cannot deny a child that is already in it love and compassion. If I ever want to have kids (I think I’m already through the good part of my extremely fertile years and that “maternal calling” or whatever has never kicked in for me, though I guess there’s still the “biological clock” ticking away) I will most definitely adopt. Probably an older kid too, people focus too much on adopting “adorable” babies and completely look over the older children most of the time. It would be nice if more celebrities said things like this. Celebs are constantly pushing motherhood at us, and it feels like being a mom is the cool thing today. It is refreshing to see an A list celebrity saying they are choosing to not have children. It’s really pretty awesome.