Why I tell my Children That They Don’t Have to get Married (or Have Children)

synapticloop
9 min readAug 14, 2021

Or… Countering the built in expectations of society that are constantly reinforced throughout a child’s life. Letting children grow up to evaluate their (and society’s) decisions and beliefs goes far beyond these two topics, into everything that they should.

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TL;DR¹

I want to empower my children to…

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