I must hasten to add: In explaining why I reject certain life choices, I do not criticize or ridicule those who have made them, or their cherubic offspring. I know many of them in my life who have not caged themselves. I posted this for two reasons.
Nomadic tribes of single childfree room-mate apartment dwellers (I am not talking about people who live with their parents) is a life that needs defending, and is not a pitiable accident, it's often a conscious choice. Frankly, you need no such help if you have the support of the monolithic "home and family" status quo. Dr. James Dobson's Focus on the Family program and all it stands for can use a bit of healthy opposition in our country's conservative backlash.
Second, I've lost close friends to weddings and childbirth. I pointed out the Twixters just to make people aware that there exists more than one kind of family. If you're in a nomadic urban tribe, you may not realize when you are breaking up with it, but the tribe can still feel kind of... well, divorced. "Well, this just happens in life, people just naturally sort themselves into family and non-family" is not true in an age of effective birth control. It doesn't just happen.
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Date: 2005-01-20 12:16 am (UTC)Nomadic tribes of single childfree room-mate apartment dwellers (I am not talking about people who live with their parents) is a life that needs defending, and is not a pitiable accident, it's often a conscious choice. Frankly, you need no such help if you have the support of the monolithic "home and family" status quo. Dr. James Dobson's Focus on the Family program and all it stands for can use a bit of healthy opposition in our country's conservative backlash.
Second, I've lost close friends to weddings and childbirth. I pointed out the Twixters just to make people aware that there exists more than one kind of family. If you're in a nomadic urban tribe, you may not realize when you are breaking up with it, but the tribe can still feel kind of... well, divorced. "Well, this just happens in life, people just naturally sort themselves into family and non-family" is not true in an age of effective birth control. It doesn't just happen.