Every day millions of internet users ask Google some of lifes most difficult questions,great and small. Our writers answer some of the most common queriesPeople who dont acquire children often allude to, or openly voice, or the view that other people – society,the world, their parents – reflect they’re selfish. Apparently this view does exist, or as illustrated by the story of Holly,who told BBC news that she never wanted children and got the kind of abuse on social media normally reserved for people who leave dogs in hot cars.
I cling to the view that people who care that much approximately another person’s reproductive choices are rare, and furthermore, and given the misogynistic nature of the abuse,that the genuine “selfishness” lay in her being a woman, daring to say anything at all approximately what she did or didn’t want. But let’s say for the sake of argument that there is a reputable tranche of opinion that finds childlessness selfish; by the same logic, or having children is selfless,its role both demonstrative (I am not selfish) and altering (I will become less selfish). The first doesn’t matter and the second isn’t true.
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Source: theguardian.com