Re: Having Kids (was Re: NF/NT Death Spiral - ORIGINAL POST)

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 > From: Jen <http://www.emis.com.au/~jen>
 > Date: Wed  Aug 12, 10:13am
 >
 > robert wrote:
 > >  >
 > >  > Are you talking about the Child Free Network?
 > > 
 > > It's similar.  Apparently, Leslie Lafayette is abandoning CFN. 
 > 
 > Yes I heard that as well.
 > 
 > >  > My sister was a good
 > >  > friend of the founder until she got knocked up. Now she is a rebel
 > >  > within the ranks. VBG
 > 
 > > 
 > > Well, it is hard recruiting these days with this "echo boom"
 > > happening.
 > > It's really a shame because being childfree is healthy for the planet.
 > 
 > mmmm... I think the fact that what got touted as a support organization
 > turned it's hand to "recruiting" was a problem.

"Recruiting" is all I can do if I'm to get No Kidding! off the ground in
Boston -- I don't believe I have any other choice.

 > My infj sister always
 > choked on the idealogy, heck some of her best friends were breeders! She
 > wasn't quite ready to don the white robes.
 > 
 > My sister is a fair hand at the old diplomatic intelligence and has
 > garnered much respect from her friends despite her current fecund state.
 > We are both good at balancing a foot in opposing camps and never signing
 > on the dotted line.
 > 
 > Jen
 > --
 > "In God's mills even chaff becomes flour."
 > Isaac Bashevis Singer