{"id":2423,"date":"2021-09-24T18:56:12","date_gmt":"2021-09-24T18:56:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2021\/09\/24\/an-advantage-of-childlessness\/"},"modified":"2021-09-24T18:56:12","modified_gmt":"2021-09-24T18:56:12","slug":"an-advantage-of-childlessness","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2021\/09\/24\/an-advantage-of-childlessness\/","title":{"rendered":"An Advantage of Childlessness"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 13pt;\">Our parents and relatives cared about us enough to judge us, sometimes justly, sometimes unjustly. They understood us and they didn&#39;t. Their intentions were mainly good, but their misunderstanding was a burden. They were wrapped up in their own lives and troubles; ours were relatively unreal to them. &quot;What do you have to worry about?&quot; a parent may say to a child drifting in the horse latitudes of teenage alienation, aimlessness, and cognitive dissonance. With their passing our burden of their misunderstanding was lifted. And they too were lifted &#8212; beyond the reach of our critical judgments.&#0160;<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 13pt;\">Childlessness has this advantage: there is no one left to judge us. We are free. I am not an anti-natalist. I am merely pointing out an advantage to having reached a temporal &#39;space&#39; in which some of us are safe from being boxed-in by the judgments of&#0160; well-meaning but uncomprehending kith and kin.&#0160;&#0160;<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Our parents and relatives cared about us enough to judge us, sometimes justly, sometimes unjustly. They understood us and they didn&#39;t. Their intentions were mainly good, but their misunderstanding was a burden. They were wrapped up in their own lives and troubles; ours were relatively unreal to them. &quot;What do you have to worry about?&quot; &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2021\/09\/24\/an-advantage-of-childlessness\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;An Advantage of Childlessness&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[69,39],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2423","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-aphorisms-and-observations","category-human-predicament"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2423","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2423"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2423\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2423"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2423"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2423"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}