Equal Rights for the ChildFREE!

[Keith L]

Just what is so special about children? It's a known disease, we all know the cause, the symptoms only last for about 18 years - so put up with it! What is it with these people so they think they are somehow "special" and deserve special treatment and privileges as a result of their horizontal folk dancing? So, you've got kids - fine by me, just don't inflict them on everybody else and expect everyone else to pay for them and put up with the consequences for you.

It starts the moment they appear, children don't inherit their parents brains, they steal them. The appearance of a groin fruit is known to reduce previously sensible adults to gibbering imbeciles with only one topic of conversation. I remember sitting in the office one day whilst the fathers of two newborn's subjected the entire office to a two hour in-depth discussion about baby turds! Look, WE DON'T WANT TO KNOW, WE'RE NOT INTERESTED.

As if the roads aren't bad enough they clog them up dropping the little brats off at school and picking them up again. Rules don't apply of course because they are "special". A brat in the back allows you to stop anywhere, park on the pavement, ignore double yellow lines. What a wonderful invention children are, they allow you to do whatever you like and to hell with everybody else. They are allowed to scream, shout and run around in restaurants, you get your own special parking places at supermarkets reserved for you and your MP3 playing disinterested teenage brat. In the workplace they grant you some very special privileges, paid for by everybody else of course!

Now the workplace is a particularly good example. Months and months of subsidised holiday, the ability to come and go as you please, unlimited sickies because little brat has a sore throat - and everybody else is supposed to suffer to cover for you. Two particular incidents come to mind : The first was one of those rare occasions when I got at the holiday rota first (both bratted people were out tending their kids!) so I booked a couple of nice long breaks over bank holidays. Oh no, no, no - that wasn't "fair", because I didn't have children I was publicly berated for "stealing" the prime holiday periods, the people with children "needed" those because the brats were on school holiday! Then there was the up country urgent job, 8 hours on the road, a days work needed - those with children couldn't possible do that, they had to collect their brats, take them to football etc. etc. To my complete and utter amazement (NOT) a few weeks later, when a job needed doing in Vienna on a Thurs/Fri, child minders and other people to do brat runs for them were no problem at all and of course they were available to do it

My rant is very simple : So you've got kids, OK, good for you, your choice, you did it. But don't expect everybody else and the world to revolve around you because of it. We're sick of your "but it's for the children" excuses, you expecting everybody else to make sacrifices for your chosen lifestyle. They're kids, they'll grow out of it, it happens all of the time. But special you are not, and there is an ever growing army of people who have now had enough of your selfish child centric ways and of you dumping your problems on us.

http://www.kiddingaside.net/
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/4600455.stm
http://www.childfreebychoice.com/
http://www.worldchildfree.org/

Keith L

[Rod]

Hear, hear, have some green.

[warmwaterdiver]

Originally Posted by Rod

have some green.

have some more, I've a feeling you'll need it

[triplefin]

And have some more from me for being so brave.

Hope you've got a wall to duck behind tomorrow!

[Mark Griffith]

The world would be a sorry state if we all thought like you.

[yellowduke]

Right on brother, power to the childless!

Jim

[Diving Dude]

You lot are right.
It would be unfair to inflict such miserable selfish parents on any children.

[DiveBuddy2]

Good point but I would sooner look after british nationals as to hangers on rant over before i get banned

[DecoWarrior]

i agree 110 % everyone has to change there holiday plan and deal with the traffic caused by these miserable brats the sooner we get them back in work houses or sweeping chimneys the better....

[Wacker]

Its about time sombody told the truth about winging pereants.
The amount of times I have heard pepole say their lifes will not change when they have kids and the kids will fit in then expect others to make alowances and put themseles out.
Dont be so selfish kids need attentive perants and if you arnt prepaired to totaly change your life don't have them we dont want to hear about your hardships cos you have kids.
Some pepole are in touch with reality and dont have kids coz they dont want the responsability that goes with them.