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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Yes, OP. Carrie was ambivalent about kids. She worked through it and ended up married to Big with no kids. It works for her.

Some women really want kids and some women really don't. Some women are on the fence and circumstances nudge them one way or the other.[/quote]

I am in the latter category and I truly do believe that you can see what people value by how they vote with their feet. People who really want kids make choices that will get them kids (barring things like infertility, etc). People who don't may have moments of fantasizing about having a family - may even sometimes want one - but make other choices.

I don't get the sense that having kids was something Carrie was ever very interested in. Her friends started having kids - which would be a normal point to reflect on your own life - and she chose something else.

Moreover, it's a pretty strong misreading of the show to see her as a passive victim of Big. I think.

I think she'd actually have been a good mom - weird but good - if that's what she wanted to do. Who knows maybe if she will end up becoming a good stepmom to adult kids if AJLT goes on long enough. She'd be a great grandmom. (So would I - that's really the part of not having kids that I know I will miss not doing! But I didn't want to go through the rest of it to get there.)[/quote]

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