Letters to the Editor
This letter is associated with the following article:
-
Yes, we have to talk about it ...
... because what we have instead is an enormous cultural fetishization of pregancy (as opposed to merely parenting) as part of the Great Family Values crush. Have babies and have them often and if you can't have them yourself, bankrupt yourself on IVF treatments ... I'm not anti-reproduction or anti-baby but there is a big cognitive dissonance here!
Certainly folk who are voluntarily childfree or who adopt or who limit their family size should be honored for the gift they are giving everybody else!