"Hair's breadth away?" No, she IS a smug parent. Definitely a self-obsessed fuckwit journo. Yes, I *know* I am loopy about my own kid, but I did have him at 43 and only bore about him on my LJ. I left my own church in tears after listening to a self-obsessed female priest go on and on about her own upcoming marriage and future kids in a sermon.
As for the UK being better for kids: ten years ago it was bloody awful for children, now it's slightly better, and the long-hours workforce culture has bugger all to do with children and much to do with preferred male patterns of work. Women-with-children-screwing-up-our-lives is an old, old song; and Jonathan Whosis may be a git, but he doesn't represent people who choose not to have children, AFAIC. He's just a git. And so was the author of the article. They'll go to hell in their own handcarts, I'm sure.
Pay them no mind.
Why so bothered, though, about a period? One every few years, [shrugs shoulders]: forgive me, you can tell me to push off, but what gets to you about it?
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Date: June 8th, 2005 12:44 pm (UTC)From:As for the UK being better for kids: ten years ago it was bloody awful for children, now it's slightly better, and the long-hours workforce culture has bugger all to do with children and much to do with preferred male patterns of work. Women-with-children-screwing-up-our-lives is an old, old song; and Jonathan Whosis may be a git, but he doesn't represent people who choose not to have children, AFAIC. He's just a git. And so was the author of the article. They'll go to hell in their own handcarts, I'm sure.
Pay them no mind.
Why so bothered, though, about a period? One every few years, [shrugs shoulders]: forgive me, you can tell me to push off, but what gets to you about it?