Rachel Bilson's Baby Plans

Honestly. It's so ridiculous how much society has disintegrated. Marriage is secondary and everything is so casual. What happens when kids need structure/families to depend on?

I don't think that anyone should get married if they don't want to. I for one don't feel need to get married though a child would be welcome to my life. I'm not going try before I have a partner (or before I decide to have a baby by myself).
But I do agree thar child needs stability but in these days marriage doesn't mean really anything and I don't think it should. Few signatures in the paper doesn't make people more committed that they already are. It might be manifestation of commitment but not a way to be commit.

I do agree that the way she stated it make it sound like that she isn't ready to child. Not because she doesn't feel need to get married but because she feels she's not ready to it. That suggest that she isn't ready to settle down and commit to someone that having children IMO needs, not to partner but to the child.

Anon hit the nail on the head and already said I was going to.

What a messed up, backwards way of thinking. I feel sorry for the babies being born into casual lifestyles with no real family structure to support them.

We're going to see a whole generation of children born to uncommitted, never-married moms who will never know what it's like to grow up with their biological dad in the home. These kids will only have one set of grandparents because bio dad's parents won't fit into the picture. How cruel to purposely and selfishly deny a child those wonderful things.

Some people will probably rip me for this, but I think some of these young celebrities see children the same way they see those hand-bag dogs: something cute to make them look good.

If they had an inkling about what real parenting entails (especially without the benefit of an army of nannies and personal shoppers), you wouldn't hear a peep about starting families.

jen, I have to disagree. There are plusses and minuses in every way of family. Nuclear family with two different sex parents isn't only good way - or at least I don't think so. Most important things in child rearing are love, stability and support (IMO). And there isn't any reason why a single parent or even same-sex parents can't offer that to child. Yes, their childhood may differ from the nuclear familys children's, but different doesn't mean inferior.
Also, being single parent doesn't necessary mean that you have smaller safety net. There might be goodparents, family friends and other relatives that are closely involved in children's life.

Peta, I do have to agree with you. Some of them do, especially those who just talk about it to the papers. But do I have to say that also most of the young celebrity parents seem to make a fair try to be a good parents.