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RT Wolf · 02-22-2009, 10:09 PM

Not all of the mothers reconcile the two together. Some do stick by their stated ideals and decide not to have children. One of them, Kaye is writing a book on teh subject. More info here:

Kidfree & Lovin’ It!

I wrote a blog post on this myself:

The One Problem Causing Almost All the Others | Mind-Manual

There's a number of problems involved here. For example, say you adopt a kid from a third world country into a first world country. The lifestyle of the kid is going to be exactly hte same as a kid born here, presumably. Thus the kid is just going to consume as much resources as if you had your own kid. The only difference is that there's one less kid in poverty or whatever caused it to be adopted.

So, maybe you're thinking about the duplicity of the issue? Maybe she just doesn't think about it. A lot of people tend to lower their consciousness rather than face the issues. On the other hand, maybe she really does have her value structure setup so that motherhood is higher than environmentalism. Unless she's clearly stated that the most important thing in her life is environmentalism, then it doesn't have to be at the top of her value hierarchy. Beyond that, maybe she thinks that the kid will do more good, overall, than not having it.

So...I guess you'll have to ask her why she did it. I can only speculate, I have like five possible reasons up and I can come up with more.

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RT Wolf Family Member Join Date: Nov 2006 Location: Toronto, Canuckland Posts: 1,737	Not all of the mothers reconcile the two together. Some do stick by their stated ideals and decide not to have children. One of them, Kaye is writing a book on teh subject. More info here: Kidfree & Lovin’ It! I wrote a blog post on this myself: The One Problem Causing Almost All the Others \| Mind-Manual There's a number of problems involved here. For example, say you adopt a kid from a third world country into a first world country. The lifestyle of the kid is going to be exactly hte same as a kid born here, presumably. Thus the kid is just going to consume as much resources as if you had your own kid. The only difference is that there's one less kid in poverty or whatever caused it to be adopted. So, maybe you're thinking about the duplicity of the issue? Maybe she just doesn't think about it. A lot of people tend to lower their consciousness rather than face the issues. On the other hand, maybe she really does have her value structure setup so that motherhood is higher than environmentalism. Unless she's clearly stated that the most important thing in her life is environmentalism, then it doesn't have to be at the top of her value hierarchy. Beyond that, maybe she thinks that the kid will do more good, overall, than not having it. So...I guess you'll have to ask her why she did it. I can only speculate, I have like five possible reasons up and I can come up with more.