I believe it has to do with the Puritans. (Of course, I blame everything bad on the Puritans, including my personal vices.) The BIBLE says "Be fruitful and mutiply" and BY GOD that's what we're gonna do!
My parents were actually fine human beings who did a great job raising three very exasperating girls. My sisters are following suit, partly because they married fine human beings who are also doing a good job raising their kidlins. I am not them. The Gnome is a fine human being, but his dad wasn't around much and his mom was an abusive bitch whose grave I would like to set fire to. Hell no, we ain't having kids. I don't have the patience for them, having had to use it up on myself and my problems, and Gnome wants to break the cycle at the root. We have pets. I have three nephews and a niece that Gnome can play with. We have neighbors with two little girls next door who have a crush on Gnome. That's all we can handle.
And don't get me started on the "controversy" of providing condoms/IUDs/RU-486/what have you to horny teenagers so they don't add to the overpopulation of the world. We'll be here all month if I do that.
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Date: 2006-05-10 07:30 pm (UTC)My parents were actually fine human beings who did a great job raising three very exasperating girls. My sisters are following suit, partly because they married fine human beings who are also doing a good job raising their kidlins. I am not them. The Gnome is a fine human being, but his dad wasn't around much and his mom was an abusive bitch whose grave I would like to set fire to. Hell no, we ain't having kids. I don't have the patience for them, having had to use it up on myself and my problems, and Gnome wants to break the cycle at the root. We have pets. I have three nephews and a niece that Gnome can play with. We have neighbors with two little girls next door who have a crush on Gnome. That's all we can handle.
And don't get me started on the "controversy" of providing condoms/IUDs/RU-486/what have you to horny teenagers so they don't add to the overpopulation of the world. We'll be here all month if I do that.