If we did not have kids then there would be nobody to drive your buses, stack your shelves or change your nappies when you are in old age. Society needs to build this into the equation (ie that we need to procreate) when we look at earning potential, and at the least the female of the species has to have a few months off when producing off-spring. Personally I would love to be in a situation where the man does more of the child raising (despite all my dreadful traits). Look to Sweden where the male is forced to take off a long period of paternity leave.
Don't know what this thread is even doing here, surely people cannot support some of the views. Even BD draws a line in his irreverent comments.
BD - burning his dinner.
BD -
Nobody's telling you not to have kids. I just don't think you should get a medal for it, I don't think politicians should vote through rent-seeking tax breaks for those who have them ("Under a Conservative government, more money will be redistributed from people like them to people like me!"), and I don't think that all laws of common sense are suspended just when one can go "Awww, goo goo ga ga" at one's offspring.
And Roz, your leap to accusations of misogyny is as unsurprising as it is nonsensical.