Re: Fifty Plus Cohousing + ? | <– Date –> <– Thread –> |
From: racheli (rachelisonoracohousing.com) | |
Date: Mon, 17 Feb 2003 19:51:00 -0700 (MST) |
I wrote: >> I guess it's very easy to see children as a form of >> pests if one doesn't enjoy them. I'm definitly in favor >> of people who are hostile to children to go live >> in their own ghettoized society/village/cohousing, whatever. >> I don't think it's healthy for kids to encounter such hostility; it >> doesn't help the parents, and it sure isn't good for the people who store >> up so much resentment over all the conveniences >> they are missing on. And Chris responded: >it's not necessarily hostility, and that's kind of an adversarial term. >as Sharon said--I've met plenty of people outside of cohousing who feel >this way--one time around with kids can be enough for some people. they >may enjoy children, but with the kids grown and out of the house, their >lives are just in a different place now. Me again: Just because you met people out of cohousing who feel that way doesn't prove that it isn't hostility... Indeed, I agree with you that it isn't a cohousing problem, it's a characteristic of American society at large. I'm sorry, BTW, That the term "hostility" bothers you, but it's the term which portrays accurately my perception. When you say: "They may enjoy children, but... their lives are just in a different place now" - it sound to me like you're saying that in effect these people used to like children, but they don't any more. >I've met these people throughout my life, including as a child, and I've >no scars from it. they were wonderful people with nothing against kids; >but they weren't going to volunteer to babysit, either. :-) I know a whole number of people who are very nice in some ways, and who don't like kids. I suppose I don't know what "nothing against kids" means... Again, if people don't *enjoy and benefit from the company/presence* of children, I would think that they should seek communities who don't have any, or have very few. ----------------------------------------------------------- racheli [at] sonoracohousing.com ----------------------------------------------------------- _______________________________________________ Cohousing-L mailing list Cohousing-L [at] cohousing.org Unsubscribe and other info: http://www.cohousing.org/cohousing-L
- Re: Fifty Plus Cohousing + ?, (continued)
- Re: Fifty Plus Cohousing + ? Sara A., February 17 2003
- Re: Fifty Plus Cohousing + ? Sharon Villines, February 17 2003
- Re: Fifty Plus Cohousing + ? racheli, February 17 2003
- Re: Fifty Plus Cohousing + ? Chris, February 17 2003
- Re: Fifty Plus Cohousing + ? racheli, February 17 2003
- Re: Fifty Plus Cohousing + ? Howard Landman, February 17 2003
- Re: Fifty Plus Cohousing + ? racheli, February 18 2003
- Re: Fifty Plus Cohousing + ? Sara A., February 18 2003
- Re: Fifty Plus Cohousing + ? Howard Landman, February 19 2003
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