32 - Sunday, July 3, 1988 - North Shore News

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NEW NEIGHBORS

Children

question

was not prying

DEAR MISS MANNERS — While chatting with new
neighbors at a recent party for. them (discussing what
brought them to the area, our children, -etc.), I asked, ‘‘And

what about your family?”’

The reply was ‘‘We married fate
and have no children.”’

At that point, I found it difficult
to continue the conversation. How
can a gap like this be bridged? It is

manners
_ Judith Martin

“ certainly’. none of: my business
“whether “anyone .is childless: by

-choice or chance, and I would not

pursue that matter.
1 would just like to have: had

'- something to say kindly to get into.

another subject from that clif-
fhanger. Obviously I should not

have been so free with my own ia-:
formation until their situation Was .

more evident.

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grabbing these people by the col-
lars and demanding, ‘‘Why not?

-Did you try? Did you try to adopt?

Don’t you like children? Are you
just being selfish?’? you have
already shown more manners than
most of the people they have
probably encountered.

Asking. new neighbors what

. family they have (they could also

have had a parent sharing their

house) does: not, by itself, con-—

stitute prying: Nor does their
answer strike. Miss Manners .as. if
they took it as such.

Your only pitfall was to behave
as if they must feel humiliated by
this admission. Regretting having
mentioned your own children to

them indicates that you are wor-
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