Sister here: I'm listening to all the breaking news about ARNOLD SCHWARZENEGGER (official site linked above - I note that he is NOT wearing a WEDDING RING) and asking myself WHY when he was PLAYING he didn't use contraception! If a man who has fathered four children (and knows he's fertile) and a woman who has mothered three children (and knows she's fertile) engage in an affair, an affair which could ruin a marriage (or two), careers, etc, etc, etc, WHY WOULD THEY NOT VERY CAREFULLY and ON PURPOSE choose to PREVENT a conception?
This is a true mystery to me!
Yes I know contraception isn't perfect. But it's nearer perfect when you combine methods. Such as using condoms along with any other method.
I feel for the child who is now going to be hunted by the media!
5/14/11
ALTERNET on WOMEN WHO CHOSE STERILIZATION BEFORE THEY HAD ANY CHILDREN
You can link to a good 2006 article here about women who tied their tubes before they ever had any children, knowing they were not the mommy type. I wonder how many men do so! More ought to! There are just too many men who are irresponsible about their sexuality and their fertility and as a result their parental duty.
5/7/11
LINK TO CHILDLESS.COM. AU
LIFE WITHOUT BABY is a good networking opportunity for NMNK!
“Who's going to take care of you when you're old?”
"This is one of those arguments that's easy to shut down if anyone suggests it as a reason for having children. One peek in your local nursing home, or frankly, on the streets of any major city, will give you all the evidence you need that having children is no guarantee of care in your old age. But with all possibility removed, do you have plans for your later years?"
There are two links on this post, for the same writer, and she is very insightful. One above and one, on wordpress, here : http://lifewithoutbaby.wordpress.com/page/9/
“Who's going to take care of you when you're old?”
"This is one of those arguments that's easy to shut down if anyone suggests it as a reason for having children. One peek in your local nursing home, or frankly, on the streets of any major city, will give you all the evidence you need that having children is no guarantee of care in your old age. But with all possibility removed, do you have plans for your later years?"
There are two links on this post, for the same writer, and she is very insightful. One above and one, on wordpress, here : http://lifewithoutbaby.wordpress.com/page/9/
5/3/11
MAY IS HAPPY TO BE INFERTILE MONTH
Are you HAPPY that you are infertile?
Is this your natural state or did you do it on purpose?
Happily Infertile defies all the emphasis on Motherhood at (almost) any cost. These days there is so much focus on celebrities and their adoptions and baby bumps. There are endless sites on the web determined to ease your pain of being infertile ("Can your marriage survive infertility." "Is this God's will? - a Cross to Bear?")
THIS IS TO LET THOSE OF YOU DESPERATE TO HAVE A BABY that there are people on this planet who are INFERTILE and HAPPY ABOUT IT. (Some of them think this is God's will too!)
Are you happy and you know it, never mind?
Is this your natural state or did you do it on purpose?
Happily Infertile defies all the emphasis on Motherhood at (almost) any cost. These days there is so much focus on celebrities and their adoptions and baby bumps. There are endless sites on the web determined to ease your pain of being infertile ("Can your marriage survive infertility." "Is this God's will? - a Cross to Bear?")
THIS IS TO LET THOSE OF YOU DESPERATE TO HAVE A BABY that there are people on this planet who are INFERTILE and HAPPY ABOUT IT. (Some of them think this is God's will too!)
Are you happy and you know it, never mind?
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