I think one reason I don’t want to have children, is fueled in part by patriarchy. I don’t want anybody’s name, and I am a daughter so MY children wont be seen as “carrying on the family name” to my parents. Lunacy.

I’m also understand the argument from a feminist standpoint that women should have the option of not having children without being seen as crazy. I’m not to sure about that survey. Being a parent I see myself being discriminated against or held up to a double standard because of the fact that I have a child and cannot be committed to my work environment the same way a single childless person can. I also I don’t think there is anything wrong with seeing mothers as maternal. The problem is when people cannot see the duality, that a mother can be a very maternal, nurturing, loving parent, but also a strong woman.

What women really deserve is respect for their choices without criticisms from either the right or the left about their reproductive choices. I think if people choose not to have children that is great. I personally don’t plan on having another child myself. However the level of criticism that women have received in this “green” movement for having children is counterproductive to the goals that environmentalist should be focusing on and serves as a distraction to the real issues. Like that Obama fully supports burning coal, a leading cause of green house gas?

The point I was making is that I will *have* descendants. Ms. Diaz and company are culling themselves out in advance, reducing the competition for those descendants of mine. I actually am grateful to her for that.

For genetic purposes, non-breeders may as well have already “dropped dead”. Express your moral outrage if you like, but any ZPG program that doesn’t involve fully automatic weapons, bio-engineered disease, and/or nuclear fire, is just mental masturbation.

My grandchildren won’t care how immoral their existence is by your standards, and neither will the ones you won’t have care about your rectitude and respect for their nonexistent needs.

Anyway, in case you haven’t noticed over the last 30-40 years, the best population control program is a western middle-class lifestyle. All across Europe, chunks of Asia, and the US/Canada, we’re not even making our own replacements.

If you’re complaining about population growth and not planning on either killing a few billion people in Africa, Latin America, and the less developed portions of Asia, or embracing consumerism and trying to figure out how to make it sustainable on the necessary scales, you’re wasting your time.

Truth is, for various reasons connected to your guilt at *living* a high-consumption lifestyle (no matter how much hemp clothing or carbon credits you buy, the mere fact you’re on the internet saying this means you have the environmental footprint of a large African village), you don’t want to have children. Fine, feel free. But spare me the outrage, it’s so hollow it’s transparent.

Children may follow in their parent’s economic/educational footsteps, but this is a failure of the system not of some “white trash” gene that is inherent in poor people. By not assisting families in need (of food, more money for education, affordable higher education, etc etc) we are recreating the cycle of poverty. Eugenics works all ways, try substituting your sentence with any racial or ethnic group and see how problematic it can become.