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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I wouldn't be disappointed at all at my son or daughters having children at 25 or even younger, as long as they were married. I have 3 kids, soon to be 4 if all goes well, so I am not anti-kids at all. Many of my friends have larger families than mine and I'd be open to more myself.

Bruenig's article rubbed me the wrong way mostly for a reason totally unrelated to young parenthood, which was that she repeatedly tried to paint herself and her husband as facing financial hardship in ways I found misleading.

[b]On the actual topic, I also thought she was way too dramatic about the transition to parenthood in a way that I actually thought was likely to increase women's hesitance to have kids.  Like, yes, kids are a lot of work and a big commitment, but you don't have to "desert yourself for another person," or look deep into your baby's eyes to see yourself. I still work, I still read and learn new things, DH and I still have friends and family. We are not trying to see ourselves in our kids, they are their own people.[/b] We just try to help them grow and develop to be healthy and happy.[/quote]

yes her essay is very navel gazey and all over the place but par for the course for that type of thing. Normal people don't go around saying stuff like that, lol.[/quote]

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