|
recent posts
----------
Stumped!
In Full Frazz
Blargh!
For Anyone Looking to Indulge a Martyr Complex
Blearily We Roll Along
Learned Today
Toyland
A Hush Falls On Pumping Time
But I Waaaaant It
Now It's Free
|
 |
You've got questions, she's got answers. Be among the first to read Elise Mac Adam's new etiquette guide.
Pre-order from:
- Simon & Schuster
- Amazon
- Barnes & Noble
Unfashionable Children
Or rather: Will having children make you horribly gauche? "Oui," says at least one French woman who is trying to get her book No Kid: 40 Reasons Not to Have Children published in the United States.
Today the New York Observer reports on the book and the general yuckiness of kiddie love and I have to say, I don't understand it really. I love a good polemic as much as the next person, but honestly, having done it twice, I can't believe people would have a child for fashion. And as for the argument that having a kid makes you unproductive, I can't say that's been my experience. Between the births of my children I sold and wrote a book. People I know have started small businesses after the birth of their children, embarked on new careers, designed houses in odd locations, and if one thinks about the big picture, Hillary Clinton isn't letting the fact that she is a mother interrupt her bid for the presidency.
I also don't see that deciding not to have children is a new thing. I have a large number of friends and relatives who opted out of reproducing and as far as I can tell they have neither had much of a problem with it, nor have they based their decision on a set of contrarian politics.
Maybe I'm just cranky today, but it seems to me that the decision to have or skip kids doesn't make you particularly interesting, so offering a few hundred pages on the subject seems less appealing to me than, say, reading the package inserts on my headache medication
posted by Elise at 8:59 AM
........................................................
Leigh said...
What makes her "interesting" is that she already HAS kids, early teens if I remember correctly, and whines about how she can't go to a museum because her kids hate it, etc etc. I read an article about her and it was so off-putting; I think it is fine to have kids, fine not to, but when you choose to have them and then hate and resent it, there's a problem. Poor kids!!
10/25/2007 5:47 AM
........................................................
<< Home
........................................................
|
Leigh said...