Although our world has somewhat
changed, still eyebrows raise, people frown and shake their heads if a
woman should dare utter these words ‘I don’t like children’. Chances are
that any aged woman nearby would remove her slippers and fling them at
the person who makes this careless remark.
In
the award- winning American series, Grey’s Anatomy, Christiana Yang is
an amazing surgeon who solely wants to concentrate on her career and so
does not want kids. In fact, this desire breaks up her marriage and got
many calling her ‘heartless’.
I
was not so quick to judge, not wanting kids is a person’s choice but
saying you don’t like kids is a whole different matter. That should be
labeled a crime against humanity. Children can be messy handfuls that
make you want to tie them up and bundle them in a cupboard to get some
peace and quiet. Yet, the full blessing of kids comes with those moments
when they are naughty, sweet, mischievous, helpful, surprisingly smart,
sensitive, unusually precocious and downright annoying. How else would
you appreciate when they are thoughtful if they are never careless? Do
you sell your goose laying the golden eggs simply because it poops
around your house? Instead, you come up with strategies to manage the
habit.
For
goodness sake, you were once a child! How would you feel if someone
didn’t like you simply because you were a child, not for any wrong you
had done.
Kids
don’t remain kids forever. They grow; they go through phases. If you
are really evil enough not to like kids, please don’t go around
spreading your ‘bad belle’ and hurting the feelings of innocent
children. Mind you, I severely frown at ANYBODY making this ignorant
statement, male or female. Our culture should not frown on it because it
a woman’s job to reproduce but because it is ridiculous, condescending
and thoughtless!
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