What's an opinion you have that most other people don't seem to have?

[shhh_its_me]

I'll start...

1. Being a stay at home parent is not a full time job
2. Tony Abbott is a competent Prime Minister and gets blame for stuff that is left over from Labor being in power
3. There is nothing wrong with bikie laws in Queensland
4. 50 Shades is **bleep**py and it's mostly bored housewives who like it
5. Pink is not that great.

Your turn.

[joz*garage]

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@sprinklespowerpuff wrote:

Funny you should say that, Am as that's exactly what happened to my father - after only one child - me. She just booted him out of the bed the second she had me. A real beaut was my mother.

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my father had an operation done ( ive no idea what it was called ) back in the 60s, something was cut so that it prevented him from being fertile. i suppose that was their solution,  woe

[sprinklespowerpuff]

Must have been some kind of vasectomy, Joz but don't know. Certainly like everything medical, would have been more of a 'to-do" than now.

[acacia_pycnantha]

What's an opinion you have that most other people don't seem to have?

That Multiculturalism as a govt policy is a bad idea.

[punch*drunk]

Just because contraception is readily available doest mean all women, even here in Australia have easy access to it. Is nobody thinking about women living in domestic abuse situations that simply are not allowed to use contraception or have no way of getting out of the house to get it even secretly? This goes on even in this day and age. Then there's the teenagers who are too scared to ask their parents or not taught enough about it. Do people think that we dont have unwanted/unplanned pregnancies even now days?

My sister has 4 kids to an abuser and she loves each of them, but if she knew her life was going to turn out the way it has I know her choice would be very different. And its not so much about having so many kids, its about getting into the relationship in the first place. He used the children as a tool to keep her with him and virtually held prisoner and the more they had the harder it became for her to leave.

If you went back 100 years, I think most women would jump at the chance of contraception if they could. Doesnt mean they didnt love the kids they had, it just means they'd have made a different choice. I'm sure my great, great grandmother who lost the 4 youngest of her 9 children within 2 weeks didnt relish the thought of having another 6 after that. Bringing them into a world of poverty and sickness. She was probably already pregnant with the tenth when 4 of them were dying.

You only have to look at how birth rates have declined in countries where contraception and education is available to know that given the chance lots of women would have chosen to use it if they could have.

And then there's the fact that abortions have been going on for 100's of years, well yes thats true, but how many women have they killed or permanently damaged performimg them. Not to mention they were illegal.

Going back say 50 years plus, the only real way women had to prevent pregnancy was hoping their husband would withdraw. Judging by the large families people were having 100 years ago, that probably didnt happen very often.