"No children, no apologies"
Jane Ganahl may be a parent, but that didn't stop her from saying some very kind things about unparents and "Baby Not on Board" in her column for Sunday's San Francisco Chronicle, "No children, no apologies."
Be that as it may, the decision not to parent creates its own set of problems -- especially for single people looking to date other like-minded folks and create a DINK (dual-income-no-kids) family. Anyone can tell you that the parenting question is one of the deciding factors of any relationship. Should it be approached directly or indirectly while dating? According to a charming new book, "Baby Not on Board: A Celebration of Life Without Kids" by San Franciscan Jennifer Shawne (Chronicle Books, $14.95) there are ways to find this needle-in-a-haystack person efficiently.
In the section "Catching a Non-breeder," Shawne notes that "you're going to have to filter out a lot of family-minded suitors to find that ideal person." She advises looking for personal ads that read: "No kids. Not now. Not ever. I mean it, dammit!" She recommends looking for likely mates in apartment complexes that ban children, in bars and cafes between 7 p.m. and 2 a.m., in "bad school districts" and in the outpatient waiting room for a tube-tying clinic.
Read the rest here.
Be that as it may, the decision not to parent creates its own set of problems -- especially for single people looking to date other like-minded folks and create a DINK (dual-income-no-kids) family. Anyone can tell you that the parenting question is one of the deciding factors of any relationship. Should it be approached directly or indirectly while dating? According to a charming new book, "Baby Not on Board: A Celebration of Life Without Kids" by San Franciscan Jennifer Shawne (Chronicle Books, $14.95) there are ways to find this needle-in-a-haystack person efficiently.
In the section "Catching a Non-breeder," Shawne notes that "you're going to have to filter out a lot of family-minded suitors to find that ideal person." She advises looking for personal ads that read: "No kids. Not now. Not ever. I mean it, dammit!" She recommends looking for likely mates in apartment complexes that ban children, in bars and cafes between 7 p.m. and 2 a.m., in "bad school districts" and in the outpatient waiting room for a tube-tying clinic.
Read the rest here.
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