Comments | childfree_zone: Can a person without children be an effective ruler?

rainbow_goddess in childfree_zone

Can a person without children be an effective ruler?

Mar 31, 2012 17:15

Party leader's childlessness brought up during campaignApparently some people are saying that this woman can't be an effective provincial Premier because she doesn't have kids, so she can't know the importance of "family" issues, and she obviously "doesn't like kids" because if she did, then she'd have some of her own ( Read more... )

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starcat_jewel April 18 2012, 21:38:38 UTC

I doubt that it would. OTOH, since this happened in Canada, it was apparently sat on pretty quickly, disavowed and the staffer who posted it was allowed to resign.

In the US, it would be the Scandal Du Jour, and would very likely have a negative effect on her campaign, unless her public acknowledgment of infertility caused it to backlash.

salad_barbarian April 19 2012, 00:27:30 UTC

I think it might cause a few problems for a male candidate but the majority of the focus would be on his wife*. The media would make a big fuss over what's wrong with her and speculate as to why he's with her if they don't have kids.

*A single candidate might as well have a flying pig for a campaign manager.

phee April 21 2012, 03:37:00 UTC

It doesnt seem to be a problem with our Australian Prime Minister Julia Gillard. She is not even married - she is in a defacto relationship.

taramae1977 March 23 2014, 03:43:10 UTC

I just saw this and wanted to say that any ruler can be effective and don't have to have children. I love children, but can't have any. It doesn't make me less of a person or a leader. I'm a teacher and I always get asked if i have kids. I say no and i get some not so good looks Mainly because I'm a teacher and to them I don't understand "their" kid since I don't have any of my own. I think it's good to get an outsider's perspective of raising children when one doesn't have a child. It means they are not biased and can be objective when it comes to solving issues. What concerns me most is that every parent thinks their child is not the one acting up even after careful documentation. I think that if the parent knows it's okay that their child isn't perfect and help to find a solution instead of ignoring the problem, more issues would be resolved a lot quicker. A good ruler would see that from the outside. But a good ruler has to help with great respect for the parent because parenting isn't easy! That being said, it's not necessarily ( ... )