Have you all noticed that in political discourse people without kids are usually treated, at best, as though we don't exist? A certain prominant politician tweeted yesterday that, "It's time to put working families first" and that kind of saying is super common in political talk. I'm a single person who's worked hard my whole life to make something of myself, and I have done the world a favor by not bringing another resource-consuming human in to the world, but I guess I have to take a back seat to "working families." My sister and her husband responsibly decided not to have kids because they simply felt they couldn't afford kids. I guess they can go to hell, too, as far as politicians are concerned. I'm not sure what's worse- the way politicians treat the childless or the way they treat atheists.
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I have been told from beast to h...e for not wanting to have kids. Why is so difficult for people to understand human beings are individual thinkers, have different opinions...that motherhood is not for everybody...that, in fact. for some women it would be a burden....Why a woman is not a woman unless she is also a mother.
I have been asked if I was abused as a child. No, people, I wasn't. In fact, I don't like / dislike kids...
@MeggieCleary thanks...i was surprised to find a group as this one.
Maggie, I read your opening line ("Have you all noticed that in political discourse people without kids are usually treated, at best, as though we don't exist?) and am glad I read read your bio and some of your posts before I responded.
Had I responded right away I would have asked why you let people treat you as if childless people don't exist.
I'm childless because I didn't want to do to any more children what my parents did to their children. I married a woman who had her own reasons to remain childless.
I found Yang interesting but knew he has yet to make himself known. He now has four years to do that. I'm frying bigger fish.
Voters in 33 states have zero democracy. They elect people who can become their predators.
Voters in 17 states have some democracy because they have the direct initiative, referendum and recall. These states are Arizona, Arkansas, California, Colorado, Florida, Idaho, Illinois, Mississippi, Missouri, Montana, Nebraska, North Dakota, Oklahoma, Oregon, South Dakota, Utah, and Washington.
Source: Ballotpedia dot org.
That same criminal theocrat ignoring us singles/non-breeders is charging us Atheists more taxes while not taxing any religious scam....he should be voted out replaced by Green Party raising all wages to living wages quarantined or working WWW.HOWIEHAWKINS.US is an Atheist from NY Angela Walker Vice President is from Milwaukee
Single, childfree people aren't considered to be an important voting bloc. With the number of childfree people on the rise hopefully this will change.
Well, any candidate who places too much weight on kids / religion is one I won't vote for...never.
@DUCHESSA Really? See that's where they get me. If there was someone like that running against Donald fucking Trump, I'd have to vote for them. I can't make that my primary issue and they know that most of the childless can't either. The same is true for atheists. They know that we can't make that our primary criterion, so they can placate the religious idiots and still retain our votes.
@JeffMurray See, I chose no to chat with a member who add "names" to a person. Bye.
@DUCHESSA Person? Good one.
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