I know more than a few people who have forsaken having children. Instead, they lavish their money, time and affection on dogs or cats. The ones who refer to their animals as children seem the weirdest. Little did I know how common it was becoming, according to MSNBC and Dr. Helen:
"…maybe one can let the Baby Boomers off the hook if they have already had children and now because of an empty nest are looking to their fur children to lavish their attention on, although I have to ask, what happened to spending time with the real, live human grandkids? And if people are having fur children instead of real children, what will happen to the human race?"
According to Dr. H.’s husband, the Instapundit, it’s apparently not uncommon to see people in Washington, D.C., pushing their fur children in strollers. I haven’t seen that in Austin, but I’m going to start looking for it. The people I know who do this aren’t Boomers. They’re mostly career women in their early thirties. But I don’t think it will impact the human race. More likely just the decadent Western portion of it. No wonder Mark Steyn thinks Third World Muslim breeding will bury the West.
More on the fur babies via Instapundit, who says "I welcome our new feline overlords."
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