None Is Enough

           In the article “None is Enough” By Lauren Slander, the author makes the audience think about the opportunities that you have when you are “childless”. I think that Lauren Slander brings up many good points in her article of why people do not have children. In the beginning Slander gives the audience a real life example as to why this girl does not want to have kids. The girl sees that her mom has to work extra hard just to serve her kids and that she is spending most of her life working and does not want to do that when she gets older. I can see where Laura Scott is coming from because when you factor in all of the things that a mother has to do to support her family, it is amazing. This article made me change the way I look at people that do not have kids because I now realize why some people are doing this. The article tells the audience on page 43 that women can lose some $1 million for women who get off of their career track and become a parent. Also on that page the text says that parents spend $234,900 until they are 18 and $390,000 if the household earns over $100,000. Now that is some serious dough ray me.  My perspective is now that women that do not have children in some ways were smart. They do not have to spend hundreds of thousands of dollars on their kids and can use their money on themselves. The problem that comes up down the road is: who will take care of you when you are older if you don’t have kids? These women now face a problem that could impact the latter parts of their life. If you have kids than when a women gets older she hopes that one of her kids will take her of her when she gets old and sick. Childless women will now have to live in a nursing home for the rest of the time she is sick, with random people that she just met. Another reason why women do not have kids is because they just scare them. Margaret Cho says “Babies scare me more than anything.” This could happen to anybody because everybody has some type of fear and for Margaret it is babies. I can see where she is coming from because babies will do whatever they want to. Something that caught my eye is the statistics on page 42. It says that 33% of women believe that children increase your social standard. If that is true than the rest of the people have children for the love of children or just because. Before I read this article I assumed that women who did not have children were strange because they were not expanding their family tree, but after reading this article I got a better understanding for why people become “childless.”