Pendragons Princess

Welcome to Pendragon’s Princess’s blog! I live in the beautiful Southwest desert of the United States, namely, the city of Tucson in Arizona. I am a recent graduate of the University of Arizona. I will be writing primarily about social issues on this blog particularly one of my favorites, the childfree community of the United States of which I am a member. It can be a challenge being a childfree person in 2008 despite the civil rights movement of the 1960’s.

Today, women have the freedom to choose to be married, or be single, have a career, or be a stay at home mom, or to be a return-to-a-career-after-raising-the-children woman. Sadly enough though, women who choose to remain childfree are still a target of criticism by the greater part of American society for whatever reason. We are not viewed as being “normal” for making the choice to be childfree. Childbearing and childrearing are considered to be inborn traits for all females, as traditional western society dictates. Even though some women
have followed these social dictates, only to later discover that they have no instinct for children and perhaps even feeling a lack of personal fulfillment due to some talent that never came to fruition. Few women are strong enough to challenge these social dictates even though they might otherwise be happily married and have what they feel to be a perfect relationship with their boyfriend or husband. Yes, there are consequences in standing by your convictions but it is much better for the woman to be true to herself than to portray herself as a fraud to the rest of human society.

More on this later.