LOUISA MAY ALCOTT was one of us...

The Literature Network presents LOUISA MAY ALCOTT, prolific writer...

HOW DO YOU FEEL ABOUT PEOPLE WHO MAKE THEIR DOGS OR OTHER PETS THEIR "CHILDREN?"

Many people who live alone have a pet and some treat their dog, cat, or other animal as if it were a child. They buy clothes and jeweled collars, take the pet to special spas for hair do's, and fuss with the animal as if it were a child.

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ARE BLACK WOMEN MUCH LESS LIKELY TO EVER MARRY THAN WHITE WOMEN ?

Here's an article from CNN, a bit more than a year old, in which it's stated that maybe MARRIAGE IS FOR WHITE WOMEN. According to this article nearly half of all African American women have never been married.

Now there's nothing in the article about living together or having children without marriage.
But I thought it would be interesting for you to read anyway.

IS THERE A RACIAL BIAS FOR OR AGAINST MARRIAGE?

TWO BRIDAL MAGAZINES ENDING OVER LACK OF ADS

Wonder why advertisers are shunning two BRIDAL MAGAZINES! Could it be that there just isn't much interest in weddings? ANDREW VANACORE from Associated Press as reported by Yahoo News!

EARLY FEMINIST WHO NEVER MARRIED or HAD CHILDREN WERE

CATHERINE BEECHER and SUSAN B. ANTHONY

HILARIOUS! SUZY JENKINS DOES A RAP FULL OF CUSS WORDS (AND ORIGINALITY)

Don't watch this one if you have the FF word!

HELEN GURLEY BROWN WAS ONE OF US FOR A LONG LONG TIME

Helen Gurley Brown was one of us for a long long time... and then she married... for keeps. HELEN GURLEY BROWN wrote SEX AND THE SINGLE GIRL back in the 1960's which revealed that not all women were remaining virgins until married... and it was full of SURVIVAL information... since she herself had to make it on secretarial jobs - seventeen of them until she got a job as a copy writer... Of course you may know her as the long time editor of COSMOPOLITAN MAGAZINE, an influential woman for many years, and to this day in her 80's STILL WORKING! BROWN NEVER WANTED CHILDREN! AND SHE MUST HAVE HAD A MUCH HARDER TIME THAN US - A YOUNGER GENERATION - dealing with societal expectations that would have it that only mothers are normal women.

NEVER MARRIED NO KIDS thanks HELEN GURLEY BROWN as a friend to our cause!

RALPHS (KROGER COMPANY) POINTS SYSTEM DESCRIMINATED AGAINST NMNK

You shop at Ralphs, which is owned by the Kroger company, and you use those RALPHS REWARDS cards for the advertised discounts, which really should be for everyone right? But no discount without the card, which no doubt is keeping track of what you buy and is a marketing tactic. You need to buy LOTS OF FOOD to get enough points $5 reward for the first 500. As a single person it's near impossible to get a reward at all. I HAVE NEVER, and I do eat! Now I suppose if I threw expensive bottles of wine in (but I barely drink), and maybe some expensive cuts of meat for a dinner party, maybe then I'd get 500 points.... YOU KNOW WHAT I THINK?

THIS POINTS SYSTEM is POINTLESS!

Sister

GROW UP ???? WHAT's MATURE ?

Has anyone ever responded to your choice to not marry or have children with a comment like "WHY DON'T YOU GROW UP?" Or said something like "YOU'LL CHANGE YOUR MIND WHEN YOU GROW UP!" indicating that your Problem is Maturity?