Single, Childfree and Totally Okay With It | Bustle

Bustle:

 "In our society, we tend to think about single, childfree women over a certain age in one of two ways. They're the hopeless spinsters — socially-awkward or overly-demanding outcasts who have 'failed' at snagging a man. Or they're high-powered career women whose current status reflects a life devoted to deadlines, paychecks, and climbing the proverbial corporate ladder."

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Quigg: Having kids not for everyone

Quigg: Having kids not for everyone:
 Excerpt:

"As I reflect on the enormous commitment it is to bring a child into the world, I am inclined to agree that this may not be the right path for everyone. No one should conceive a child out of a sense of obligation. Truly, if your heart doesn’t ache to have a child, you should think long and hard about signing on for such a commitment. For adults who choose not to bear children, I for one look forward to the other contributions they may be free to make with all that energy they don’t have to expend on parenting."

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The Childfree Are All Right

Yes, Someone Needed To Say It

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Setting the record straight on 6 myths about childless adults

 Opinion — Bangor Daily News — BDN Maine

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Silence of the child-free men

Silence of the child-free men 

"Sandler acknowledges that the topic of deliberate childlessness tends to centre only on women’s choices:
. . .
But it seems highly unrealistic to assume first-time fatherhood is on the cards for most childless 65-year-old men, so the absence of men in this discussion is probably about something more than simple biological differences.

More likely it’s a product of the ongoing discomfort with talking about the way men’s choices help shape women’s lives.

Unfortunately, leaving men out means ignoring the possibility that many men also want to live child-free lives, making it easier for women to make that choice themselves."

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Choosing childless

Child-free couples say they made the choice that's right for them

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Charter schools are recruiting young teachers. They should hire parents instead. - Slate Magazine

Charter schools are recruiting young teachers. They should hire parents instead. - Slate Magazine

Apparently:
1. Correlation does imply causation!  I guess all the experts are wrong.  It couldn't possibly be that the link between poor student retention and poor school performance is caused by teachers fleeing bad schools, could it?  NAH.  Must be that these childfree people make the school bad.

2. The childfree, and young people joining Teach for America as a temporary move are the same thing. Likewise, veteran teachers and parents are synonymous.  My experienced career-teaching friends must have kids they've been hiding from me.

3. Parenting makes you a better teacher.  Because parenting your kid teaches you about ALL KIDS.  Who knew?  My mother, with her 50 year teaching career, must have been full of bullshit when she claimed that her masters degree, 90 credits post masters, and extensive experience were what made her a good teacher and an expert on classroom management.  Apparently, although a superior teacher in a competitive top-ranked school *before* I was born, she instantly and finally transformed into a good teacher ten years later when she finally changed my diaper.  Damn, she owes me a portion of her pension, I suppose.

Or could it be that 4. all this is bullshit and Slate sucks at choosing articles based on science and reason, instead promoting myopic points of view based only on anecdotal evidence?  Nah.

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