What makes this article a winner?
- No pandering to parents by including their tut-tuts or ensuring quotes from CFers who "love children but don't want any of my own"
- Acknowledgement of the existence of CF groups other than NoKidding!
- Acknowledgement that some CF people just can't stand kids
- Acknowledgement that children are acquisitions to so many parents, another status symbol to add to the list
- Acknowledgement that today's parents think they invented parenthood and today's culture is far too child-centric
- Mocking the celebri-breeder obsession and "Bump Watch" so common in the celeb gossip media
- A slant that, for once, is pro-CF and not pro-parent or "aren't those CF the most interesting weirdos"
3 comments:
This is an extremely good article. It's disturbing that gay couples are now also feeling the pressure to have children. There's a gay-themed street festival here in Chicago, where I could always see anti-breeding sentiment on display. It was very comforting to a straight woman like myself. I felt like I had found a common ground with that community. Now it's changed--I saw numerous booths set up that preached the joys of adoption and foster parenting to gays.
Do you have a copy of this article? It is no longer at that link.
You can find the article here:
http://www.findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_qn4176/is_20060730/ai_n16652578/pg_1
Thanks for letting me know the original link expired. I'll update my post with the new link.
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