Comments on: A Great Response to Lydia Lovric’s Article on “The Selfishness Of Childfree people” http://thebritgirl.com/2007/03/24/a-great-response-to-lydia-lovrics-article-on-the-selfishness-of-childfree-people/ The Interests of a Childfree Brit Living in Toronto Fri, 09 Jan 2009 23:05:50 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.5 By: mercurior http://thebritgirl.com/2007/03/24/a-great-response-to-lydia-lovrics-article-on-the-selfishness-of-childfree-people/#comment-1402 mercurior Sat, 24 Mar 2007 11:52:21 +0000 http://thebritgirl.com/2007/03/24/a-great-response-to-lydia-lovrics-article-on-the-selfishness-of-childfree-people/#comment-1402 my mum suffers from asthma, and its the genetic version, i will develop it one day, rowan suffers from it too, so thats the first thing, 2nd, i have cancers both sides of my family(i had a scare a few years back i had a growth on my leg, luckily it was benign), so has rowan, i have a few mental quirks, i am not as bad as an obsessive compulsive, but i like my own stuff in its own place, and i get annoyed if anyone messes with my stuff, i get focused on tasks, to the exclusion of everything, even eating. plus the financial reasons, and the self knowledge i will be a terrible father, even with rowan i am antisocial sometimes i just have to be alone, free to do what i want, if i dont get that time on my own, i get short tempered, (which in a 6 foot tall 23 stone man who used to play school boy rugbyleague isnt good), plus i am clumsy, i can break things just by looking hard at them ;-) everyones reason is their own, it can be a combination of 1 or 21, that makes the idea of children unworkable in that situation. my mum suffers from asthma, and its the genetic version, i will develop it one day, rowan suffers from it too, so thats the first thing, 2nd, i have cancers both sides of my family(i had a scare a few years back i had a growth on my leg, luckily it was benign), so has rowan, i have a few mental quirks, i am not as bad as an obsessive compulsive, but i like my own stuff in its own place, and i get annoyed if anyone messes with my stuff, i get focused on tasks, to the exclusion of everything, even eating.

plus the financial reasons, and the self knowledge i will be a terrible father, even with rowan i am antisocial sometimes i just have to be alone, free to do what i want, if i dont get that time on my own, i get short tempered, (which in a 6 foot tall 23 stone man who used to play school boy rugbyleague isnt good), plus i am clumsy, i can break things just by looking hard at them ;-)

everyones reason is their own, it can be a combination of 1 or 21, that makes the idea of children unworkable in that situation.

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