Christine the Curmudgeon

So Christine the Curmudgeon was watching Rachael Ray this morning.  One of the guests was this woman who was a child development specialist of some sort, and the discussion was about kids being bratty, especially around the holidaze.  This woman said that one of the reasons a lot of kids are so spoiled and bratty is because the parents are too busy working and stuff to spend time with them.  So they buy them lots of expensive crap out of guilt, and hesitate to punish them for being brats, for the same reason.

Anyhoo, this reminded me of something I read shortly after Rach married that John Cusimano dude.  The gist of it is HERE.

I don’t have time. I work too much to be an appropriate parent. I feel like a bad mom to my dog some days because I’m just not here enough. I just feel like I would do a bad job if I actually took the time to literally give birth to a kid right now and try and juggle everything I’m doing.

I remember she took a lot of crap for her choice.  Even in the blog that I linked to, there’s a lot of wank over her decision.  But WHY?  What does it matter to other people what she does with her life?  And it’s not as if we have a shortage or people on this planet, the human race will NOT become extinct because Rachael Ray chose not to procreate.

Sure, she’s busy…she has several TV shows, a magazine, and all of those cookbooks, most of which are in my own collection.  But hey, she also has a squillion dollars and is earning more every day…surely she could hire a nanny, hey, how about a whole army of nannies, right?

Maybe other celebs do this, but Rachael obviously feels that if she’s gonna have a kid, she should be around to actually raise it.  Nothing wrong with that!

It just pisses me off that she even was made to feel that she had to justify her choice to be child-free.  As far as I’m concerned, “I don’t like the little buggers” is as good a reason as any.  It’s simply none of anyone else’s business, it  should only be between her and her husband, so people need to put a sock in it.  Let’s take a stand to Free People From Society’s Expectations, and as long as no one is committing crimes or otherwise causing harm…live and let live already!

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