Oh go fuck yourself, Joe O'Connor.
Indeed, there are more finite calculations involved: Career demands. Timing. Not having a partner, or not having the right partner. Flaky fears about overburdening our already overburdened planet, personal choice and a bunch of other hooey that serve to hide the fact that happy couples that choose not to have kids are, at root, well, let’s see: selfish.
Eppie Lederer, aka Ann Landers, the American doyenne of advice columns, addressed the couples without kids phenomenon a generation ago, penning a piece lovingly entitled: the Musings of a Good Father on a Bad Day.
It features dear old dad, peering out at the world, peering into the lives of a pair of hipsters dancing through life, unburdened by kids.
“The childless couple lives in a vacuum,” she wrote. “They try to fill their lonely lives with dinner dates, theatre, golf, tennis, swimming, civic affairs and trips all over the world….
“See what the years have done. He looks boyish, unlined and rested. She is slim, well-groomed and youthful. It isn’t natural. If they had kids, they’d look like the rest of us - tired, gray, wrinkled and haggard.
Source.
Mmmhmm. And you know what you and Ann Landers are, Joe O'Connor? Jealous. Stop turning regrets you have about your own life into newspaper columns.
Eppie Lederer, aka Ann Landers, the American doyenne of advice columns, addressed the couples without kids phenomenon a generation ago, penning a piece lovingly entitled: the Musings of a Good Father on a Bad Day.
It features dear old dad, peering out at the world, peering into the lives of a pair of hipsters dancing through life, unburdened by kids.
“The childless couple lives in a vacuum,” she wrote. “They try to fill their lonely lives with dinner dates, theatre, golf, tennis, swimming, civic affairs and trips all over the world….
“See what the years have done. He looks boyish, unlined and rested. She is slim, well-groomed and youthful. It isn’t natural. If they had kids, they’d look like the rest of us - tired, gray, wrinkled and haggard.
Source.
Mmmhmm. And you know what you and Ann Landers are, Joe O'Connor? Jealous. Stop turning regrets you have about your own life into newspaper columns.