DADWAGON

Big Preg over at Accidents Will Happen pivoted off of our Babies-in-Bars dust-up and wrote a fantastic essay on Parentitlement. In a handful of linked arguments, she adds more thought to the subject than a thousand screaming monkeys (I include us in that) scared up last week after the CNN.com story. A vignette:

Children are humans. They are you, us, in training. Arguments like “you wanted them, so keep them at home” focus on a parent’s desire for an object to the point of negating the subjecthood of the child. Children are at the behest of their parents, certainly, but they exist separately from them. I can totally understand hating on inconsiderate parents. I do not understand blanket hate on children. While I am hesitant to make the “you were a child once” argument, because it’s a dumb platitude, it seems pretty worthwhile and logical to me. I support people not having children. I think there are intelligent arguments against having children. I think it a good idea to examine the biological imperative. And yet, you, adult who enjoys your freedoms and is going to abstain from procreation: you came from somewhere, and hopefully someone tolerated your existence so you could get a hotdog, or go to the library, or heaven forbid your own parent could have a cup of coffee or glass of wine that I find it hard to believe  that you now, in retrospect, would deny them.

Preach on, Big Preg, and keep doing what you do.