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Apr. 5th, 2007 03:43 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
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A woman in Lancaster gives birth to quintuplets...and what are they talking about in reference to the news in my dear old hometown newspaper?
Plenty of comments about how everyone hopes they're going to get married now and well, look at this bill that the taxpayers must have to deal with now. Because OMG, they're not caucasian and "he doesn't look like the suit and tie type" so they must be on all kinds of welfare!
I swear, I could just kick anyone who suggests that having kids is an automatic assumption that people should get or stay married. Yeah, that comes from firsthand experience. I was one of those kids whose parents tried to stay married "for the sake of the kids". The eventual results still hurt me every day. I know i'm not the only one in that boat. I know what the "ideal" is, but when the only reason to be married is the kids, it's very often better for everyone involved- espcially the kids- to not. Sometimes the "ideal" just doesn't work.
A woman in Lancaster gives birth to quintuplets...and what are they talking about in reference to the news in my dear old hometown newspaper?
Plenty of comments about how everyone hopes they're going to get married now and well, look at this bill that the taxpayers must have to deal with now. Because OMG, they're not caucasian and "he doesn't look like the suit and tie type" so they must be on all kinds of welfare!
I swear, I could just kick anyone who suggests that having kids is an automatic assumption that people should get or stay married. Yeah, that comes from firsthand experience. I was one of those kids whose parents tried to stay married "for the sake of the kids". The eventual results still hurt me every day. I know i'm not the only one in that boat. I know what the "ideal" is, but when the only reason to be married is the kids, it's very often better for everyone involved- espcially the kids- to not. Sometimes the "ideal" just doesn't work.
