- Mass shootings, unbridled capitalism, division, climate change. Not in this lifetime
- The state of our educational system. Evidence of the anti-intellectual world we are evolving into where experts are people with laptops, and leaders are ignorant wackos.
- Not interested in raising children within a system of unbridled capitalism and excessive waste ––an immoral system we are born into.
- I believe we can love and nurture beyond our DNA. I don't believe biological connection is a prerequisite for altruistic love and bonding. I believe in nurture.
- Over population and wiping out resources (rainforest, the ocean). I don't believe we should all create more people exponentially. Some of us will have to make different choices.
- I'm in love. I enjoy the conversations, the time together, the adventures, travel, the date nights. I don't want to sacrifice that dynamic.
- Strange things are happening with autism risks increasing and puberty hitting girls earlier because of increased and growing environmental estrogens. Plus, a pandemic. We continue to encroach on animal life, forests, etc. I am not optimistic about the choices that happen in the world that I am helpless to stop. We are headed down a dark path and I love my unborn children too much to subject them to it.
- "The happy people are the ones who wanted kids and had them or didn't want kids and didn't have them." Let us all just make our own choices.
- Jane Goodall worked with her "kids"...our paths can be different...our children can be different. Forms of motherhood can be different (Oprah).
- Motherhood can be an isolating experience. If I were to live in a commune I would be more likely to have children, with the shared and supportive experience of other women. I don't believe men are a good stand-in for that role.
- Global warming, viruses, trumps, racism, is not the world I want motherhood in. I chose differently.
- There are and have been billions of us. Capitalism has commodified the idea of motherhood.
aug 8 2007 ∞
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