This is a great essay on parenthood. I especially love her point that people who don’t want to have kids have a strange view of time. They see parenthood (or the child-rearing part anyway) as a life sentence when it’s over in a flash. I heard an ad on radio this morning for a backyard playground system. I thought, “What’s the point? Before you know it they’ll all be in college.”
Some of the anti-parenthood people she quotes seem pretty selfish and narcissistic. They reminded me of an aunt of mine who never had children because she said it would “ruin my figure.” She died a few years ago and her figure was long gone. She had no children to come to her funeral, but thanks to her three sisters she had some nieces and nephews show up.
(Hat tip: InstaPundit)
