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| Perpetuate the species and culture? Let someone else do it. Fido is my family |
| 2019-09-04 |
| [BBC] In Ypsilanti, in the US state of Michigan, Lisa Rochow sits beside her partner, Cameron Wheeler, as their Siberian Husky puppy crawls over their laps. Even though Aery, who keeps trying to wander off the couch, is a new addition to the family, both Rochow and Wheeler look relaxed for first-time ’parents’. Aery is their baby: they won’t be having children. Rochow, 24, a graduate student in social work; Wheeler, 26, a high-school history teacher preparing for graduate school; and Aery, the nine-week-old puppy, make up a complete family unit. "I feel like I would be giving up a lot of my life to be a parent," says Rochow. "That would cost money, that would cost time, that would cost things that you want to do." Wheeler adds that he’d constantly worry about a child ‐ "more so than most parents". But "being child-free, a puppy has always been on the radar," says Rochow, who knew she didn’t want kids as early as high school. When she met Wheeler on Tinder at a music festival, he felt the same way about being child-free. |
| Posted by:Besoeker |
| #17 Sorry.. Spemp Oppressor of the Visigoths. |
| Posted by: Dron66046 2019-09-04 16:02 |
| #16 Amazing rhythmic allusion, Semp. |
| Posted by: Dron66046 2019-09-04 16:01 |
| #15 The panda generation. Kids so foobar they can't be bothered to breed. Heh, sexual harassment pandas. |
| Posted by: swksvolFF 2019-09-04 15:57 |
| #14 If people don't want kids, they shouldn't have them. I think it is a bad thing that so many people seem to think that not having kids is a good thing, and I find it very disheartening that so many people are willing to indulge delusions that pets are children (they're not). But at the end of the day, if people aren't interested in having kids, they are probably better off not having them, and potential children are better off not being born instead of having disinterested and resentful parents who will ruin their lives. |
| Posted by: Vernal Hatrick 2019-09-04 15:54 |
| #13 A tale of two Christs and a puppy Who, none of 'em, knew their McGuffey: Two lived to serve man On the socialist plan... And the pup? He grew up. Yep, a yuppie. |
| Posted by: Spemp Oppressor of the Visigoths3610 2019-09-04 12:58 |
| #12 The panda generation. Kids so foobar they can't be bothered to breed. |
| Posted by: Iblis 2019-09-04 10:45 |
| #11 Ypsilanti, right down the road from Ann Arbor, Michigan's answer to San Francisco. Attention whores both of them. "And their little dog(s) too" (apologies to TWWOTW) |
| Posted by: USN, Ret. 2019-09-04 10:36 |
| #10 Probably a good thing. Can you imagine being the child of two such self absorbed, selfish, people? Will probably nrbef change you diaper because changing sh*tty diapers isnt trendy enough. |
| Posted by: CrazyFool 2019-09-04 08:50 |
| #9 Idiocracy as a how to video. |
| Posted by: BrerRabbit 2019-09-04 07:39 |
| #8 Rochow, 24, Wheeler, 26 Doubtful they will feel the same way in 5 or 10 years. |
| Posted by: Zenobia Ebbineger7578 2019-09-04 06:33 |
| #7 The future belongs to those who show up. |
| Posted by: Procopius2k 2019-09-04 05:19 |
| #6 Evolution in action |
| Posted by: g(r)omgoru PB 2019-09-04 04:57 |
| #5 Mixed bloods are the future. Pure bloods have too many genetic problems. Among the blacks you're degree of black color can classify you adversely. Too black is inferior to the lighter blacks. Too white you are butchered for medical uses in Africa. This pet substitute is self elimination from the genetic pool. |
| Posted by: Dale 2019-09-04 04:27 |
| #4 The BBC even aired a program recently about the 'white, caucasian race' being genetically diluted and timed to fade out in another half century on their own, while the 'African sample' were genetically purer and would move on to evolve into Something out of a Richard von Coudenhove Kalergi wet dream. |
| Posted by: Dron66046 2019-09-04 03:52 |
| #3 The correct term is childless. Good old BBC, encouraging white people not to bear children and continue their line. Meanwhile illegal aliens and Muslims are having 7 babies per woman. |
| Posted by: Herb McCoy 2019-09-04 03:40 |
| #2 The unborn thank you. I reckon they are all people only a dog could come to love. 'Wherefore I praised the dead which are already dead more than the living which are yet alive. And better than both of them is he who hath not yet been, in that he hath not seen the evil work that hath been done under the sun.' - Ecclesiastes |
| Posted by: Dron66046 2019-09-04 03:03 |
| #1 Can't we find a way to export such self-regarding nitwits for hardworking, properly-educated, serious and culturally conservative couples from abroad for whom the essence of a well-lived life is raising children well? |
| Posted by: Lex 2019-09-04 02:18 |