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Steve Long wrote: |
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> My apologies if I caused you any offense, Joe. I fully agree that choosing |
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> not to have children is just as mature as deciding to procreate, and more |
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> mature than simply drifting into parenthood. |
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No offense taken, and I agree about the "drifting into" thing. My |
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wife's brother asked why we are not having kids, and she asked him, in |
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turn, why he had kids. His answer was simply, "Because it's what you |
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do." I would have rather he said, "Because I want to be a parent." |
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> I suppose what I am getting at is the idea that there are others in Gentoo |
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> besides young single males. A responsible parent or a committed spouse has |
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> a very different perspective to a teenager. Certainly my perspective now at |
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> 37 is vastly different to when I was 18. Parenthood changed a great deal, |
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> as did the earlier process of committing to marriage. |
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Yep, and I'm one of the "older" devs here too (in fact, I've got you |
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beat at 43!). Good to have a mix of ages, interests, and types of |
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people, I think. And ashame we don't have more women. |
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-Joe |
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