Mark Latham is adamant. Those who choose to have children can feel the love; those who don’t struggle with empathy.

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That’s it. That’s the analysis and he was asked about it again yesterday on ABC Radio National by Fran Kelly.

The issue has been around the block a few times but it’s never really gone away.

Do children make you feel empathy you couldn’t feel before?

Are children the ultimate in the pyramid of life?

When he was asked, Latham stood by his remarks:

He then went on to say he was specifically talking about Julia Gillard and not making generalisations. To be fair to Latham, Fran Kelly asked specifically about the comments he had made previously, dredging this issue back up again.

But did Mark Latham get you riled up when he indicated that Julia Gillard’s lack of children was somehow a deficit? Have you ever had to explain to anybody that not being a parent does not make you different – it just makes you childless ? Freelance Journalist Janine Toms has made a choice not to have children.  She writes

Do you ever find yourself instinctively making judgments about people based on whether they have children? Was Mark Latham diving off the deep end again or was he making a point that people agreed with but no one wanted to say?

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