Comments on: The Nanny Wars… One More Reason I’m Glad I’m Childfree

By: og217

og217 — Tue, 19 Aug 2008 15:04:05 +0000

At least the women that work WORK. The cows that sit home watching Oprah and then demanding that their husbands “do their share” of household chores are disgusting. I can’t imagine what a horrible life - having an allowance, knee-deep in diapers, scrubbing toilets and wiping noses - gross. A life fit for the mentally retarded.

By: mercurior

mercurior — Fri, 03 Aug 2007 07:52:42 +0000

your forgetting its not about that, its about their choice the world revolves around them.. how dare someone not want to live like them..

By: Britgirl

Britgirl — Fri, 03 Aug 2007 03:48:02 +0000

Yes, where is the simple respect for another person’s choices? Why must it be either or? What works for one person may be completely wrong for another and yet people insist that their way, and their way alone, is the right way.

Think of how effective we could all be without the wasted energy to prove another wrong. Sad.

As has been pointed out the only thing they seem to agree on is that childfree people are “wrong,” “selfish” and “missing out.” And they can’t even get that right.

By: brightfeather

brightfeather — Wed, 01 Aug 2007 21:17:56 +0000

I think it’s sad to witness the SAHM’s and the GOTWM’s failing to respect each other’s rights to make a choice and judging the choices that one another make.

As childfree people we are being stigmatized by those who refuse to respect our right to make a choice to remain childfree and not to be ‘dissed and judged for it. Yet, we are being ‘dissed and judged by two groups, who have no respect for one another’s choices and who, when they aren’t pointing fingers at each other, point them at us.

I frequently feel like I want to blow a whistle, shout “time out” and send everyone to the benches to contemplate the meaning of the word “respect” and the value of promoting “good will” among us all.

By: Feh

Feh — Wed, 01 Aug 2007 19:24:51 +0000

And both camps deride the childfree for our choices…a pox on their houses.

By: Emma

Emma — Wed, 01 Aug 2007 15:45:32 +0000

One of the (many) reasons I never had kids was because if I did, I would have wanted to be a stay-at-home-mother (perhaps working part time when they were in school)…and that simply is not a financial possibility for me. At least not if I want a roof over my head.

But, it’s all about choices and what’s important to each individual (just like having the kids(s) to begin with)…and only each individual can make that decision. Admittedly, it does amuse me when mothers go after each other on this topic…it gets them off of our backs for at least a little while.

By: mercurior

mercurior — Wed, 01 Aug 2007 07:31:09 +0000

notice, they never mention the male working. men work more hours today than ever before, who foots the bill the state ok, but if there is a man around, or in the case of a divorce, same thing.

we all know they want a mary poppins clone, someone to hang around chimney sweeps, to jump into chalk drawings.. the old fashioned nannies, as in one of our dinosaurs is missing they were tough women, and could punish, today, you have to watch the nanny in case she shakes it, in case she drinks the bar dry and so on.. but they still want mary poppins, to do everything so the mothers wont see their “prewcious” brats at all.