Childless Adults Aren't 'Selfish'

"In 2008, Nebraska decriminalized child abandonment. The move was part of a "safe haven" law designed to address increased rates of infanticide in the state. Like other safe haven laws, parents in Nebraska who felt unprepared to care for their babies could drop them off at a designated location without fear of arrest and prosecution. But legislators made a major logistical error: They failed to implement an age limitation for dropped-off children."*
Has society hammered the idea into our heads that men and women who choose not to have children are selfish? What about parents who have children and hate being a mother or father, and the child suffers for it? Cenk Uygur and Ana Kasparian discuss the pressures of parenthood, and what "selfishness" really means.
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