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Imagine a blue collar family in Hershey Pennsylvania sacrificing and spending tens of thousands of dollars to send their darling daughter off the college so that she can make a better life. What they get for their money is a brainwashed kid that decides the world is so evil that she doesn't want to procreate or really even be a part of it.

All of this is the sort of narcissistic naval gazing that first world countries indulge in right before they collapse. Fortunately there seems to be a pretty definite demography of the people that are engaging in this behavior. They will self-select and be extinct in one generation. Unfortunately this is but one of many pathologies that currently plague our society. Some of them more benign like this one but some won't just fizzle out in one generation.

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Diamond saying that she and her partner not wanting to have children because they would be bi-racial is the the most assinine thing I have ever heard. I say this as a bi-racial 37 year old who has lived in the US my entire life. All of the people quoted in this article, seem immature and unstable human beings who are better off not having children. Not having children is a personal choice for each person but having to join groups and creating your own language around it seems more like a social contagion than anything else.

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A few quick reactions: 1. Anyone wanna bet Rachel and the others who choose to be sterilized still want to dictate how the children of those who choose to be parents are to be educated? 2. Did anyone else think about "Brave New World" as they finished the article?

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This broke my heart. Born in the 1980’s these social messages hit my generation in college. I know many friends, most have drifted, who swore off children, or children and marriage. With 40 just around the corner, the majority who swore them off - - and actually stuck with it - are lonely and kinda angry. Granted, half my friends in college swore no kids and then hit their early to mid 30’s and are now happy and fulfilled moms.

I don’t know any of the people featured, but I am an environmentalist with mixed race kids and an amazing husband. My kids’ lives are full of happiness and joy. I was never determined to be a mom, but it is by far my greatest blessing and my children are more amazing than anything I could have ever dreamed up in my head. We travel the world, and seeing it through my kids eyes is amazing. Most importantly, they make the world a brighter, happier, more loving place.

I don’t believe anyone should be forced to have children, and certainly don’t think anyone who hates kids should bring them into the world. My heart breaks because for most of these women their decision is based on some silly social narrative or a search for victim hood. Approaching middle age the only content women I know who didn’t have children based the decision on actual, serious, health issues - - a parents with genetic ALS for one and a mom and brother who committed suicide for the other.

It mostly speaks to what a sad outlook these people have towards the world. Most of our lives, for most of us, will be lived after our 40th birthdays. A long and lonely life awaits these young women.

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[Sophie Lewis, a British feminist scholar] dreams of a post-parent world, one in which the old notion of the family is replaced with a “classless commune on the basis of the best available care for all.”

If Ms. Lewis is actually a "scholar" of any sort, she could spend a few minutes with Google, looking at the history of utopian communes. Hint: not pretty.

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I'm confused by Rachel Diamond's commitment to a needy, unsocialized, and dangerous dog in contrast to her rejection of human children. It's almost as if she's a bit ... um, what's a nonjudgmental term? ... a bit inconsistent.

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20% of British teens report having actual nightmares about global warming.

Almost all of my teachers were Democrats and my 9th grade history teacher was openly a communist. A really nice lady but obviously possessed with evil.

Turns out having all American children spend 8 hours a day with pagan collectivists was a bad plan.

The first step is to dissolve the unions and outlaw public pensions because that is what attracts busybody resentment-peddling non-contributor scumbags to the profession disproportionately.

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These people have drunk way, way, way too much Kool-Aid while gazing at themselves in the mirror.

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If you asked me at 18, 26, or 30, if I wanted a child, the answer was no, no, and probably not. Then I got married, and he was ambivalent about a child. Then we decided to stop "not" trying and see what happened. I am now parent to a 15 yo daughter and couldn't be happier. She's the best non-decision I ever made and having her has made me a much better person.

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That’s it… I’m having another baby.

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I never had children. That was the right decision for me. I have no regrets.

That said, I think it's absolutely bonkers for young women to remove part of their healthy reproductive systems. Just because you don't intend to use the factory original equipment doesn't mean you should destroy it. Yuck!

But we live in a screwed up world where tens of thousands of teenage girls have been brainwashed into stopping puberty, taking cross sex hormones, and having double mastectomies, hysterectomies, and phalloplasties. They parade their newly carved up, neutered bodies proudly on social media and are now regarded by the woke as 21st century heroes.

With this biological boundary breached, it's no wonder that some young women are now doing neutering light. Some unknown number of them will remain happy with their decision. The rest will live to regret it.

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I cannot remember either the last time I was so horrified or the last time I was so saddened.

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Rachel and Cameron personify the new "Peter Pan" world of the 30-something generation. They met 7 years ago, have dated ever since, yet cannot commit to anything larger (marriage???) than sharing a cramped, crummy apartment in a dying metropolis with a dog and a third person while surrounded by fantasy books and Star Wars figurines. “The Peter Pan Chronicles” indeed.

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The people who do not have children will be replaced with the people who do.

This is inevitable.

Whether you think that's a good thing is a matter of personal opinion.

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This group of people are incredibly self centered. There purpose in life and view of life is warped. I think I am glad they are not having children. Stepping back I am concerned that my generation created a culture that would turn out this kind of adult.

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Maybe the most heartbreaking thing I’ve ever read. I fear for the future because of this next generation of adults. We have lost our way.

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