The Spencer Hamilton Blog

As I've discovered the childfree community I've decided to look at some articles geared toward being "anti childfree" to get a glimpse into what they think as well as how the discussion tends to be framed. I came away with some things I found problematic about these anti childfree articles Having a child doesn't guarantee that your  family will visit you when you're in a nursing home at times other than Thanksgiving and Christmas e  1.  They zoom out focusing on society, not inward about personal choice  I t is MY decision whether to have a child or not. Society doesn’t get to make that decision for me. Society won’t be there for the 2am bottle feedings, Society won’t relieve a tired Mom when she’s burned out. SOCIETY won’t take my husband out on a date when we get tired of parenting and just want to be ourselves. SOCIETY won’t babysit for me, so why does SOCIETY get to pressure me into having a child because they’re falling below replacement rate. There are...

Welcome to the Blog Everyone! So…I was on Youtube yesterday watching some RavenEntertainmenttv ( https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QGCrmVQk-3M ) and he talked about a sort of before and after with coming out as a focal point and I decided to kind of say my peace on it. Coming out is a real revolutionary thing for yourself mainly because you have to come out to yourself first and get familiar with what that means for the world you’re living in and I don’t mean Earth but your corner of it. My Universe before coming out was filled with inner turmoil pulling from society, religion and myself. I remember a few times in school people asked If I were a boy or girl, once I tried to cut green sweatpants into shorts and because I’m tall it looked like Capris and I was pretty androgynous back then because I had a hat on and I was overweight…with moobs…and fair skinned. If I wanted to do drag back then that would’ve been the perfect time for me. Once at a Teen Haven Meeting (Christian Youth G...