Since the other post is obviously going to be a discussion about my personal choices I've decided to reassert the questions that were meant to be the focus of the post here for our discussion ( Read more... )

sorry if this has been done, i don't ever recall having seen it ( Read more... )

:blows dust off community: (dang, where is everyone? lol)

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Court grants parents permission to sterilise their 11 year old.

Is it the parent's choice, or is this a slippery slope toward taking rights away?

A hypothetical question here ( Read more... )

If you have children, was there ever a time you identified as childfree?

Conversely, if you are childfree, was there ever a time you thought you'd have children?

If you know what made you change your mind, what was it?  

I'm sure this topic is bound to come up now and again, but I haven't seen anything on the subject recently and with turnover in the community, I think it might be worth another post. Now, granted, the article itself is pretty old, but I only saw it the other day.

Article here: www.psychologytoday.com/articles/200406/hidden-male-grief
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In this article, an author protests about the new UK scheme that means all visitor speakers in schools must be vetted first and have their backgrounds checked before being allowed onto the premises to ensure that no child molesters get in.

In my eyes, this is a step too far - these people are coming into the schools to give talks, they will not be ( Read more... )

In light of this article about a woman of 72 getting IVF - should there be a maximum (and minimum) age for IVF treatments? What should that be? How should it be enforced? So long as the person is funding it themselves does it matter what their age is?

If you are childfree, do you automatically shy away from becoming friends with a new acquaintance if you find out he/she has children?

Same for you all that have children, are you hesitant to become friends with someone that you know is childfree, or of taking the friendship further once you find out?