Betty Dodson with Carlin Ross
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Meet Laura Scott. She's 47, childless, and just wrote a book Two is Enough about the complex decision NOT to have a family. While she's totally happy with her decision she's tired of people asking her when she's going to have a baby and tired of being called "selfish":
"I've had people ask: 'What's wrong? You're not too old.' Everybody assumes that if you're married, you've got to have children, especially because we both work with them at school. And if you don't, you have to explain yourself all the time. Having children should be a choice, not an obligation. Yet many women I know have even stopped going to christenings or baby showers because they are sick of being emotionally bullied for not having children. It's easier for men. Not feeling paternal isn't such a grave crime. Robert has a stock response to the inevitable question: ‘No, I'm the only child my wife has,' he smiles"
God, I respect this woman. For her, it was a choice - the essence of feminism. And she's not alone. 75% of the women and a third of the men she interviewed were convinced they don't have the ‘instinct' to have their own child.
childless by choice
When I was a little girl there were 2 things that I never wanted...a big wedding and children. I watched my mother struggle and give up her dreams to raise her children alone and I was never going to live that life.
Not once, have I ever regretted my decision to be childless, but I can relate to how others perceived my decision as selfish, although, in my eyes, the decision to not have children is the most unselfish choice a woman can make. Most women I know shouldn't have had children in the first place.
childless now they've grown and gone
and am I happy about that ! Being a parent was the hardest thing I ever had to do. It does not come easy. Obviously I wasn't the suzy homemaker cuddly kind of mom. I was very happy once they got on their own and my 25 year job of raising 2 girls was done. I will NEVER pressure them to have kids. NEVER. Now I have 2 friends. :)
Thank you, Carlin! I'm going
Thank you, Carlin! I'm going to check out Laura Scott's book.
Just one small niggly note: the correct term for those who choose not to have children is "childfree." "Childless" implies that we're missing something.
Thanks to you and Betty for a great website!
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