Friends w/Kids vs. Friends w/o Kids
This cycle, based on what happens between about 25 and 40, boomerangs back around every so often.
We’ve had a few bombs in the child-rearing culture wars in the last few weeks to bring this issue of “Can those with kids and those without kids be friends?” back to the forefront. Let’s run through some of the assets.
You had this long, generally-good essay/article in New York Magazine.
You had this, from Anne Helen Petersen.
(Hey, that’s actually from
and .)Then you had Julia Mazur, 29 and child-free, discussing how she would watch TV shows and learn to make new food on a Saturday post-Beyonce hangover — a clip that drove conservatives into a tizzy.
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