Dear JD,
You don't know me, and I don't know you, but I think we need to have a chat. Your remarks about democrats and childless people are untrue, unnecessary, hurtful and could be dangerous. So I would like to talk to you about it.
*Writer's note: I will be using the term we because I'm childless and liberal leaning on most things*
Childless people and democrats aren't anti-family or anti-child. We do have a stake in the future of the country. We want to see families be able to afford their bills. We want to see kids not get killed in school shootings. We think about what will happen to this country if certain politicians get into office. We are aware that what is done today will have lasting effects. We have children they care about and if we don't it doesn't mean that we don't care about the future of this country.
Also you're wrong because the people without kids by choice are not miserable. You want us to be miserable to fit your narrative. Your narrative is not the truth even ig you want to believe it is.
Your words were hurtful. What if people are childless because they can't have kids. What if they don't want kids for financial reasons. Maybe they don't have the qualities to make a parent. Childless people are not anti-children or anti-family, they just don't have kids for whatever reason. They're not less than. Your words made me and probably a lot of people feel like you view us less than. If you're a Christian and what you're saying hurts feelings you're not being very loving, that's the whole thing about being Christian right?
Forcing people to want kids or forcing them to have kids could be so dangerous. There are 333.29 million people in the Nation so we don't need everybody having kids. Some people should not be parents. Kids are already being put up for adoption or the kids will be abused. Foster care in Gwinnett County Georgia is over ran with kids but are struggling to find homes to place kids in. The problem is not birth it's an adult problem.
Being a parent is not a role that everyone has to play. It's a role that some people shouldn't play. Others can't or don't want to play that role. Those who don't want to play that role have made peace with that decision and we want to be able to make that decision for ourselves. We won't make anyone else make the same decision.
If you're happy with your decision to get married and have kids, good for you. That's not a decision you should make for anyone else.
Plus if I wanted to even get married there's no one I would deem worthy of being my husband. Did you even think of this? To get women to get married you got to give them good men to do that with.
Also we are not mentally unstable or psycho because we don't have kids. Even if this was true would you want unstable psycho people to have kids? People who can't have kids or unstable? Funny I didn't realize infertility was a mental issue, I thought it was other parts involved.
Please lay off the childless cat people. We are no threat to what you're trying to do for America just because we don't have kids. You're going to loose the election if you keep insulting people. Trying to win the election by turning people against us in this manner isn't going to really work that well. Plus do you really want the women hater votes? Because that's what you will probably going to get.
We're not miserable or a threat to you please leave us alone.
Signed,
A very happy and fulfilled childless cat lady
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