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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I have multiple friends and a sister who are in your position. Their adult children have rejected the idea of becoming parents and seem to be perpetual children themselves, constantly moving, changing jobs and asking for financial help from their parents. I think this partially comes from the disrespect for the roles of traditional mothers, who are constantly dissed on this site and others. Being a SAHM puts women on the defensive yet working moms are often stretched beyond their limits.[/quote]

Please stop perpetuating the idea that people who don’t have children are children themselves. You don’t even know if that’s the life they chose or what’s going on. Adults of childbearing age today had a lot of economic obstacles their parents never had to deal with, so you don’t know why they keep moving for jobs or asking for help. It seems like a wise and very adult, if difficult, decision to not bring children into that situation. I know that can be difficult for some of you boomers to understand, but maybe not everyone is making unlimited choices with supportive circumstances. If you wanted your children to have children, maybe you should have done more to make sure we had a world conducive to that. Or were you busy raising your kids? Maybe childless people aren’t useless. [/quote]

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