05-08-2012, 06:05 PM
(05-08-2012, 05:08 PM)IMaDick Wrote: I was raised in a family of 9 kids, we never had much money, I'm glad that my parents didn't consider that a motivating factor at my birth and bury me in the back yard.
It wasn't always easy and as kids if we wanted extra we had to do things to get it, but none of that started until we were old enough to do it, kids needs are pretty simple if I remember right, a meal a bed and hug or two a week was sustaining and enough.
I didn't wear 100 dollar tennis shoes when I was 7 or 8 but I didn't care I had a pair of shoes to play in and a pair to wear to school.
of course we didn't have computer games or a TV in every room of the house either, and our washing machine was a maytage but it was outside and had rollers on top and we had a clothesline in the summer and a dryer in the winter never both at the same time.
I think you mean what you say and say what you mean, regardless of what anyone else thinks and you value life (your own, the lives of children, the lives of animals...), I'm very very very glad that your parents didn't bury you in a hole in the backyard too!
I've come across some of those types of women (in RL) with whom you've described debating in your post upthread. The ones who carry on about aborting a fetus as basically ridding their bodies of meaningless trash. Luckily, they are few and far between, though they do tend to band together in my experience. While several here at Mock support the right to choose, none have treated the issue with the freakish indifference of those you've encountered elsewhere, imo. It helped that you explained where you've been before with this argument. It may be the same argument, but a whole different crowd...