Having kids is bliss -- NOT! (A BNOB news roundup)
This just in from Australia:
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From another recent study:
Women who had been homemakers for all or most of their lives and had not held down a job were most likely to report poor health, followed by single mothers and childless women.
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I hadn't realized that one of my favorite fiction writers, the wonderful Haruki Murakami, is childfree, until I read this:
Childless, like his characters, Murakami is free to pursue his daily regime of writing, translating and fitness. After rising at 6am, he writes for about six hours, broken by an hour-long jog or swim. His evenings are spent listening to jazz and translating American novels into Japanese. As a translator, Murakami has introduced the Japanese reading public to more than 40 works by the likes of Truman Capote, John Irving, Tim O'Brien and Grace Paley.
Sounds ideal to me!
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Having a child adds 40 hours a week to the workload of a previously childless woman.
On average, she reduces her paid employment by 10 hours a week while increasing her housework by four hours and she spends 44 hours a week doing childcare.
She loses eight hours sleep a week, spends 16 fewer hours on personal care, spends 10 hours less on socialising and has her leisure time cut in half.
She will spend just an hour a day without her baby present.
Quick! Someone call a surgeon. I feel a need to be sterilized.[LINK]
From another recent study:
Women who had been homemakers for all or most of their lives and had not held down a job were most likely to report poor health, followed by single mothers and childless women.
[LINK]
I hadn't realized that one of my favorite fiction writers, the wonderful Haruki Murakami, is childfree, until I read this:
Childless, like his characters, Murakami is free to pursue his daily regime of writing, translating and fitness. After rising at 6am, he writes for about six hours, broken by an hour-long jog or swim. His evenings are spent listening to jazz and translating American novels into Japanese. As a translator, Murakami has introduced the Japanese reading public to more than 40 works by the likes of Truman Capote, John Irving, Tim O'Brien and Grace Paley.
Sounds ideal to me!
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1 Comments:
What a great post! You know, in my college sociology courses, I read study after study that shows that women truly do hold the burdens of childcare! In the pre-industrial age, children used to be an asset and now they're a liability - it just seems backwards now. Maybe it was okay in the past, but I think it's way too hard to be a woman with kids in today's age. Why would I want to chose that kind of life for myself? It's hard enough just taking care of myself!
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