Pendragons Princess

A Childfree Dating Site.

http://www.puzzele.com/datingsite/idonotwantkids.htm

This site actually looks very cool, even though I am not in the market for mate-seeking, I Do NOT Want Kids.com is sure to be popular with the growing childfree community. Only permanently childfree people can register as members of site; even fence-sitters will have their accounts deleted, according to site rules, which makes sense. Nobody wants to become a member of a childfree dating site to wind up with a mate who all of a sudden says out of the blue, “Don’t you ever think about having children?” to the other person. Membership is free, the site owners do have a method of weeding out undesirables with a rigorous questionnaire each member is required to fill out. Hopefully this site will have much success in matching up childfree persons seeking potential mates with other childfree people.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20081029/ap_on_re_us/safe_haven

22nd child abandoned at Neb. hospital under law

Tue Oct 28, 2008

OMAHA, Neb. – A 15-year-old girl was abandoned by her father Tuesday night at an Omaha hospital, bringing to 22 the number of children left under the state’s unique safe-haven law since it took effect in July.

The girl left Tuesday at Omaha’s Immanuel Medical Center is a state resident, said Children and Family Services division director Todd Landry in a statement.

State officials declined to answer questions about the case until Wednesday, when more information could be gathered.

On Monday evening, a 15-year-old girl from Nebraska was left at Creighton University Medical Center. She has been placed in a residential shelter while authorities continue to investigate her case, Landry said.

Nebraska’s safe-haven law, which took effect in July, is the only one in the country that lets caregivers leave children as old as 18 at a state-licensed hospital without fear of prosecution. The youngest child abandoned so far was only a year old; 12 of the 22 were teenagers. Three children were from other states, including Iowa, Michigan and Georgia.

Lancaster County officials said Tuesday that the boy from Georgia will be turned over to a child protective worker in Cobb County, Ga., to return to his home state and to attend a court hearing Wednesday. The boy will remain in Georgia custody at least until a judge decides who should take care of him.

Nebraska’s law was intended to protect infants, but it did not define “child” in its wording. Most state lawmakers have agreed to amend the law when the Legislature reconvenes in January so that it applies only to infants up to 3 days old.
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It makes me wonder, what if every state in the union had this law? Would every loon of a parent drop the kid off at the hospital as soon as she or he flew off the handle? (the “parent” flying off the handle, not the child) Well, this is just one more proof positive that people truly do not know why they have children, except for the fact that everyone else does it, too (as if that makes it morally right). I guess children do not bring all that happiness and joy to parents when so many parents go out of their way to get rid of their offspring this quickly. It sounds more like these so-called parents are singing “A child brings such misery and pain into the world. There’s nothing precious to love in a child’s face…” And for those who do believe that children bring joy and happiness in adult lives, I have both a bridge and a planet I can sell them really cheap.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20081028/ap_on_re_us/safe_haven

Another teenage girl abandoned at Neb. hospital

Tue Oct 28, 2008

OMAHA, Neb. – State officials say a 15-year-old girl left at an Omaha hospital is the 21st child abandoned under Nebraska’s unique safe-haven law.

The Nebraska Department of Health and Human Services’ Todd Landry says the girl from Douglas County, Neb., was left Monday evening at Creighton University Medical Center.

Landry says the girl will remain in a residential shelter while her situation is investigated.
Nebraska’s safe-haven law, which took effect in July, is the only one in the country that lets caregivers abandon children as old as 18 without fear of prosecution.

Most state lawmakers have agreed to amend the law when the Legislature reconvenes in January so that it applies only to infants up to 3 days old.
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The safe-haven law will have to be amended, indeed, seeing that it is being abused left and right. Just because some parents are unable to contend with their teenager’s misbehavior, they are dropping off the kid at the nearest hospital? WTH? Why did they even bother to have kids in the first place if they are going to wind up abandoning them like that? Nebraska is becoming a laughing stock to the nation with this loony law. Their state legislators must have been smoking corncobs laced in absinthe when the safe-haven law was passed. Did they really think people would not try to unload their kids as soon as they were given the chance?

Short of saying that people who breed should be “punished” with having to raise the child (eons ago the Roman Catholic Church once believed that babies are sometimes God’s punishment for sexual intercourse, especially outside of marriage), in my opinion, the safe-haven law should be eliminated completely, then no one will be able to abuse it.

It’s that time of the year once again, when spawn dress up, go door to door, and yell “Trick or Treat!” They do not come to our door, thank goodness, but the entire event brings to mind movies will hell spawn in them. Not surprisingly, a good number of them are horror films, or thrillers. So, here is my list of hellspawn films:

The Omen, 1976. Damien is a boy who is literally Satan’s spawn. Anyone who crosses him, gets knocked off. How precious. Not.

The Bad Seed, 1956. Patty McCormack was nominated as Best Actress for an Oscar in a supporting role in this film. Patty portrays a cold-blooded murderer who appears to be all sugar and spice on the outside. No doubt the Menendez brothers idolized Patty.

The Fallen Idol, 1948. Philip, the Satan-spawn of a French ambassador makes life a total living hell for everyone around him and especially for the butler, Baines. Baines (Ralph Richardson) is suspected to be involved in a murder but is innocent. No wonder the parents of this monster are always away from him - I would be, too. This film won the BAFTA 1948 award for Best British Film and was also nominated for an Oscar the same year.

Village of the Damned, 1960. Long considered a classic of the horror genre, the children of an English village all have the same bleached-blond hair and eyes that control the actions of adults. Sounds a lot like the spoiled brats in America 2008, minus the hair color.

The Twilight Zone, “It’s a Good Life”, 1961. Not a movie, but worth mentioning here. Billy Mumy as hellspawn with powers that will punish any adult who is not nice to him. Yeah, America 2008 again but thank God most hellspawn don’t have the powers that Anthony Fremont has.

It’s Alive, 1974. It’s those precious babies once again, only this time, they are killing machines, even killing its bearer, the doctors, and nurses in the hospital at the beginning of the film. The special effects are a bit dated, but they are still effective and graphic.

The Other, 1972. Written by Tom Tryon, a former actor, this story is about twin brothers, one good, the other one, downright evil. Bizarre accidents start to happen but only grandma knows the truth about the twins.

Dennis the Menace, 1993. More accurately classified as hellspawn dark comedy, why anyone would want to have a child like this is beyond me. This kid is so evil, he almost gets the elderly neighbor Mr. Wilson’s nuts cut off with a canoe in the attic. Crotchdump extraordinaire.

The Exorcist, 1973. Little Megan is possessed by the demon Pazuzu after playing with a Ouija board. If you ask me, all unruly kids are possessed by demons but as to whether their names are Pazuzu, I have no idea.

Mildred Pierce, 1945. Joan Crawford stars as the mother of a spoiled rotten crotchdump and cannot win its affection, no matter how much the mother does for the dump. I personally think every young mother of today should be forced to watch this film. I’d be very surprised if they even know who Joan Crawford is.

The Children’s Hour, 1961. A female Satan-spawn at a private girls’ school makes life a living hell for two female teachers. Audrey Hepburn and Shirley Maclaine star in this Oscar nominated film. More proof that children are not innocent or precious.

Let’s face it, more movies have portrayed children as being pure evil than innocent, precious snowflakes from seventh heaven. But, such films are a great form of birth control.

A real life incident today at work, Sunday October 26, 2008, at at the hour of 1:00 PM Arizona time:

I had just finished re-shaping the gelato when all of a sudden I hear this horrendous noise like a cow dying. The sound is coming from the direction of the down escalator, which is directly in front of me, but is temporarily out of service and is being repaired, so it is barricaded off at both ends, upstairs, and downstairs. I see the creature from which the noise is emanating from and it is a girl about five years old, changing on to the yellow barricade. Part of the escalator is visibly dismantled from our view, and what is the child trying to do? Access the escalator in order to play on it. Well, this isn’t the first time that I have seen kids playing on it, trying to walk up a down escalator (nice challenge, but it was not designed for that purpose). Heck, I have even witnessed a few accidents involving kids and this escalator - once where a toddler was crouching down and putting his hands on the escalator step below him. The toddler reaches the bottom, his mother, who is oblivious to everything except herself then and there, hauls away the kid while the kid is screeching out loud. Yep, part of the kid’s hand was missing in the escalator. Maybe moomy never taught the kid to not do stupid things like that. Security and paramedics came and the rest of the story is self explanatory. But back to today’s incident for a minute. The five year old winds up lying on the floor, continuing to make even worse sounds while its keeper stands there like a complete idiot. It is amazing how keepers as such get attention from others, because people like myself do stare at attention whores, which is exactly what this person was. I turn around with a head shake and a laugh to myself at the innate stupidity of breeders. About ten minutes later, a six-foot tall male creature comes by, speaks to the moo, then physically hauls away the kid, who is unable to play on the escalator. Some peace and quiet finally arrives when my customers start coming by for their after-lunch dessert. Otherwise I’d never be able to hear what they are saying while the noisy crotchdump is making a scene.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1079262/The-mother-gets-13-year-old-behave–giving-cigarettes.html

By Luke Salkeld
21st October 2008

Teenager Sam Holt’s behaviour would leave most parents in despair - drinking, smoking, taking drugs and having sex.

But the 13-year-old’s mother thinks it is ’sweet’ rather than shocking.

Tracy Holt even rewards her daughter with cigarettes on the rare occasions when she does behave.

Miss Holt, 43, knows Sam drinks but is just relieved that it’s not more than a couple of cans of lager a night.

And she decided not to get angry about her daughter losing her virginity at 12, instead insisting that Sam uses contraception.

Miss Holt, a jobless single mother with two other adult children, told Closer magazine: ‘I don’t see the point in punishing her.

‘If I ground her, I’m just punishing myself because I have to put up with her in the house. Instead, I reward her good behaviour by giving her cigarettes. If she’s bad, she goes without.
‘She’s a little comedian. I let her get away with a lot of cheek. It’s sweet.’

Giving out cigarettes as a reward ‘works’, she insisted.

Miss Holt said: ‘There are a lot worse things she could be doing.

‘We’ve all got to die sometime. I haven’t got cancer from smoking so she’ll probably be all right anyway.’

Recalling the moment Sam blurted out that she had lost her virginity when she was just 12, Miss Holt said: ‘I thought it was a joke, so I laughed. I was disappointed. No mother wants to know her 12-year-old is having sex but I’m glad she told me. I didn’t show I was angry and just kept it to myself.’

Miss Holt blames teachers at Sam’s former school for being ‘too soft’. She said: ‘Now she is at a special school where there are fewer kids in each class.

‘Hopefully these teachers will be stricter and she will finally get the discipline that’s needed.’

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Here we have another unemployed parent from across the pond (is she a neighbor of the Cromptons?) who thinks that rewards for offspring include alcohol and cigarettes. In Great Britain, the legal drinking age is 16 even though persons cannot purchase alcohol unless they are at least 18 years of age. Clearly Tracy Holt is unaware of the health consequences of smoking, especially at such a young age for her daughter, but why should she care? Poor Sam does not have a father figure to teach her better, since Mom is the only one who is anything close to a “parent” for the 13 year old girl. Punishing for misbehavior is after all pointless, according to Holt. While it is better that Sam be on some form of contraception than risking pregnancy or an STD, it makes me wonder how much further the mother will go to allow her child to do anything she wants to. I never rebelled like that; I had other ways to rebel that were safer to my health (like changing my religion at the age of 15, which did not please my parents, and they did not think that any better than engaging in risky sex, drinking, or smoking (!).) In a way, I am amused at how Sam admitted to losing her virginity at the age of 12. When I was 12, in junior high, the girls believed that boys were cootie-infested creatures who carried diseases for which there was no known cure. How times have changed since then, and I’m only 41.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1077401/The-jobless-couple-10-children-rake-32-000-year-benefits–STILL-arent-happy.html

The jobless couple with 10 children who rake in £32,000 a year in benefits.. and who STILL aren’t happy

By Neil Sears

14th October 2008

Tracey Crompton has never had a job, and her husband Harry has been out of work for 15 years.

Yet the couple live for free in a seven bedroom house with their ten children and receive £32,656 in benefits a year.

They even have their own vineyard in their 270 ft long garden.

In fact, they receive so much in handouts that they have already bought and wrapped £3,000 worth of Christmas presents, and plan to buy more.

The couple say they are enjoying the credit crunch because it has forced down the price of luxury goods like TVs and computer games, but do have two gripes.

Firstly, they want even more benefits.

Secondly, that their neighbours have nicknamed them ‘Britain’s Biggest Freeloaders’.

Mrs Crompton, 40, moaned: ‘I’m not satisfied with the benefits we get - I want more. I haven’t been able to work because I’ve had to bring up the kids and Harry’s got health problems.’

Fortunately their benefits do stretch to a £250 weekly shop which usually includes 50 packs of crisps and ten litres of fizzy drinks.

Mrs Crompton went on: ‘If the kids need something I go and get it. I rarely go without things either. If I need something, like a new pair of shoes, then I’ll get it.’

The couple and their children Michael, 20, Robin, 19, Matthew, 17, Sarah, 16, Samantha, 14, Harry Andrew, 12, Alex, 11, Kristian, nine, Jesse Lee, seven, and Joshua, six - live in Hull in two semis knocked into one.

As both are unemployed, their weekly £120 rent is paid by housing benefit and they receive another £628 a week in income support, disability and carer’s allowance and other payments. Mr Crompton, 50, says he is unable to work due to angina and irritable bowel syndrome.

Mrs Crompton said: ‘We don’t have money worries. We don’t go without things and I think that’s because we are self-sufficient. We grow our own food. I don’t see why others should have money worries.’

Sadly, others do not always understand. ‘Every time I walk down the street, people shout “scroungers”,’ said Mrs Crompton.

And it seems that she does not have the time for housework.

The walls of her home are dirty and peeling and the floor is covered in videos and magazines.

‘I don’t have much time for cleaning since I started a college course in catering,’ said Mrs Crompton.

‘I’m really nervous about what will happen at the end of my course. I’ve never worked and so it would be scary to think I would have to get a job. It would have to be very well-paid to pay more than the benefits.’

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I shouldn’t wonder why the Cromptons have been labeled as Britain’s Biggest Freeloaders. Since both of the parents refuse to work at all, they have plenty of time for whoopee, do not know how to use birth control at all, and deliberately work the system to their own advantage. This is what is wrong with the Socialist system - human nature and wanting more and more handouts from the government. It’s not like the Cromptons are contributing anything of use to society because they are not.

Though I am curious as to why Tracey Crompton does not teach her ten kids to help out with the housework. Looks like she is being a bad role model for her kids, as is her husband. She doesn’t need a course in catering, she needs a job and some form of birth control. Maybe it is time for Great Britain to cut down on the welfare benefits, or better yet, eliminate them altogether, so that they won’t have to deal with freeloaders like the Cromptons.

http://www.thelocal.de/14951/20081016/

Mother pedals naked toddler through chilly Munich

by Shannon Smith

16 Oct 2008 Authorities recently stopped a lawyer on her bicycle when they noticed her riding through town in chilly weather with her naked baby in the child seat, Munich police said on Thursday.

The one-and-a-half-year-old appeared miserably cold, according to police reports, with her “nose running down to her lips” and her “mouth blue at the corners.” A police car thermometer read 11 degrees Celsius (52 degrees Fahrenheit) at the time, with what the report describes as “an unpleasant wind chill.”

The mother, a 32-year-old lawyer from Schwabing, told officers her daughter had refused to let anyone dress her, explaining that children have individual rights as well, which is why she accepted her daughter’s wish to remain undressed.

Dumbfounded officers directed the woman to put clothes on the girl, and she complied without further discussion. The pair was then allowed on their way.

“The officers were clearly surprised, but the mother did have a thick winter jacket with her, plus pants and shoes, so officers only had to ask her to put them on the girl,” Munich police spokesperson Gottfried Schlicht, told The Local on Thursday.

A complaint has been filed against the lawyer for child neglect and abuse. According to Schlicht, the Munich Youth Welfare Office is also set to investigate whether the woman is fit to raise children.

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“Children have individual rights as well”, especially when it comes to knowing what is best for them, huh, Ms. Lawyer. There is not a 1 1/2 year old child anywhere on the planet that knows what is best for themselves. That is why we have something called parents, people who are supposed to know what is best for their child. But the female lawyer who decided to take her toddler for a bicycle ride apparently did not know any better at all. I can only guess that this lawyer is the German equivalent to the American public defender. Either way, this is not only one more example of bad parenting, but further proof that it does not take a lot of brains to become a lawyer. At 32 years of age, if a person has no common sense by then, chances are that person never will have any.

Sunday, October 19, 2008 at 6:30 PM, Arizona Time, at my place of work, while cleaning up at the end of the day, one half hour after the mall and my workplace is closed:

I figured I would finally take the time to share a few thoughts on how I came to be childfree. It was long ago since I discovered I had very little interest in babies, creatures who seemed like aliens to me, that I simply could not identify with. It was when one of my first cousins had a fourth child, a son, who I met for the first time soon after he was born. I did not have a clue what I was supposed to do with it, except look at it briefly, then turn away. Babies held no interest for me at all, and I was thirteen years old at the time. The time of my life when my hormones were supposed to “kick in” but that never happened, either. I was a bit of a late bloomer physically, not gaining my full height of 5′4″ until I was 16 years old. The only good thing is, 25 years later now, I am only one size bigger - a misses’ 8 - than when I was that age. And I still do not have any baby hormones. I am not even sure I have a biological clock, either, whatever that is. I am privileged to look quite youthful for my age, but I attribute that to the peaceful childfree life. Thus women who have baby rabies is in many ways a mystery to me since I never had that experience, and most likely never will. Being an introvert all of my life, this has helped me make the childfree choice and at the same time wonder if there is some kind of conflict being childed and and introvert. My mother was like that and later on in my life I discovered exactly how hard it was for her to have to raise a second child after raising a son some years earlier than me - it seems she would have preferred to contribute something more meaningful from her own talents rather than waste that time on raising a child, since raising a child requires one to be other-centered. A woman having a master’s degree from college in the late 1940’s was a very big deal for a woman back then, and that was before the 1960’s feminist movement. I do know that her experience also influenced my decision to be childfree since she probably would have been very happy to be childfree as well. She married a man she actually loved (!) back then, but then by some bizarre aberration of nature, had two kids. Well, I too married a man I love very much, but in our case, we made the decision to be childfree. It can be a challenge in 2008 to be openly childfree so I can only imagine what it would have been like to make that decision in 1952 (social ostracism comes to mind). At any rate, I do not feel like I have missed anything in life, neither does my adoring husband; but my contention is that childed people will have missed the experience to be childfree, while they go through the motions of life and conform to the status quo.