9/18/08

WHAT IF YOU DON'T WANT TO BE THE BABYSITTER FOR YOUR NEICE OR NEPHEW ?

How about you? Have you begun to think that your brother or sister, or brother-in-law or sister-in-law is using you as an unpaid babysitter, using a guilt trip on you, expecting YOU MS. or MR. UNMARRIED AND CHILDLESS, because they think you OUGHT TO WANT TO BE A GREAT AUNTIE OR UNCLE since they do not approve of your child-free lifestyle?

HAVE THEY TOLD YOU THAT IF ONLY YOU SPENT MORE TIME WITH CHILDREN YOU WOULD CHANGE YOUR MIND AND WANT SOME OF YOUR OWN?

WHY IS IT ASSUMED THAT YOU WANT TO HAVE A "RELATIONSHIP" WITH THEIR CHILDREN?


WHAT IF YOU DON'T PARTICULARLY LIKE CHILDREN, and ESPECIALLY NOT YOUR NIECE AND NEPHEW who (if truth be known) you would not raise the way they're being raised if you did?!

DO YOU REALLY WANT SOMEONE ELSE'S KIDS TO BE YOUR RESPONSIBILITY?

DO THEY EXPECT YOU TO SPEND YOUR OWN MONEY, CANCEL YOUR OWN PLANS, OR IN ANY WAY BE A CO-PARENT?

Hey, has some relative of yours gone ahead and HAD A CHILD THEY CANNOT AFFORD maybe WITHOUT THE FATHER'S INVOLVEMENT in the kids life, and NOW YOU HAVE TO COMPENSATE ?

WHAT PRESSURE DO YOU FEEL FROM YOUR FAMILY TO BE THE "BABYSITTING SPINSTER SISTER or BROTHER?"

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