Sunday, February 24, 2013

Child Free Motivations

I am prompted by several posts lately to return to a supposition I have re: VHEMT and our motivations.

It has been noted that 'ecological' reasons are well spelled out on the website, but, Les certainly knows there are loads of other reasons to deliberately be child-free.
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VHEMT MOTTO: Live long and die out! 
Subtitle to the Motto: What part of Voluntary did you not understand?

Began a list...no right answer (it's voluntary!). 
Did I manage to share your motivation? 
Do tell! 
or Don't! 
It's VOLUNTARY!

all edits welcome!  thanks for playing...

Child-Free Motivator Categories
Environmental - The catastrophic effects of human disruption in every habitat have gone beyond 'fixable', the planet will have her way with us.
Social - We can't change behaviors fast enough to avoid human population apocalypse
Physical - My condition (sterility) opened my eyes to life without kids
Life Centric -  Humans are killing too many species before we're gone - fewer people and sooner is better

Misanthropes - Humans are a plague
Political -  There are too many people since as yet there are staving infants
Nihilistic - Extinction is inevitable, why wait?
No "motherly instinct" ('fatherly')
Won't care for babies Birthing, Crying, Changing, Feeding
Won't care for kids -
Teaching, Financing, Scheduling, Worrying(!)
Sex Schmex - Don't really care for it, with the possible consequences way out of proportion to whatever fun I'm supposed to be having
Noble Sacrifice - I'm being selfless to make as little environmental impact as possible
Selfish - finances, emotions, partnership, friends --- reality is better without kids
Some of the above
Don't Know
Submit your own here:                       

(Favorite choice/category of all time: Not Discussed in Class!)

*Mine was a political decision at age 9, and I kept another from procreating along the way, my single best achievement!