{"id":3200,"date":"2011-07-27T15:20:00","date_gmt":"2011-07-27T15:20:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/admin.patheos.com\/blogs\/daffeythoughts\/2011\/07\/brat-bans.html"},"modified":"2011-07-27T15:20:00","modified_gmt":"2011-07-27T15:20:00","slug":"brat-bans","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/daffeythoughts\/2011\/07\/brat-bans.html","title":{"rendered":"Brat bans?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<\/head>

The nice thing about a society that has become so evil that its business establishments begin to offer the slogan equivalent of \u2018Hate kids?\u00a0 Then we\u2019re for you!\u2019<\/a>, is that it won\u2019t be around much longer to trouble the unhappy world.\u00a0 The reason for the babyphobia is all too obvious, just ask much of Europe:<\/p>\n

\u201cWhen did kids become the equivalent of second-hand smoke? Blame a wave of\u00a0childless adults with money to spare.\u00a0\u201cEmpty nesters continue to wield a huge swath of discretionary spending dollars, and population dips in first-world countries mean more childless couples than ever,\u201d writes AdWeek\u2019s Klara.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Being childless is increasingly not seen as a curse, or even a choice, but a world view.\u00a0 Those who do it have no intention of having kids so they can live a completely self-absorbed life of narcissism and hedonism, care not a rip about what happens to their society\u2019s future, and then laugh at all the dolts and losers who do have kids because it will be their kids and grand kids who get screwed over when things fall apart.\u00a0 Yep, the good thing is, they\u2019ll be gone soon.\u00a0 The bad thing is those who don\u2019t follow their brand of self worship will be forced to watch their posterity pay the price.<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The nice thing about a society that has become so evil that its business establishments begin to offer the slogan equivalent of \u2018Hate kids?\u00a0 Then we\u2019re for you!\u2019, is that it won\u2019t be around much longer to trouble the unhappy world.\u00a0 The reason for the babyphobia is all too obvious, just ask much of Europe: […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2805,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3200","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"yoast_head":"\nBrat bans?<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"The nice thing about a society that has become so evil that its business establishments begin to offer the slogan equivalent of 'Hate kids?  Then\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, 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