I have one child. My fiancee doesn’t want to bring more kids into this world while foster kids legally free for adoption languish, so that is what we are pursuing.
When I die I will surrounded by family, and I pity the childless people, who will die alone and lonely.
Children are not easy. But they’re worth it.
Ou daughter and son in law just had their first baby, a daughter, our first grandchild. She was born June 6th and is an absolutely precious 2+ months old. I feel very sorry for the parents of the “childfree” couples who will not be grandparents. To not have grandchildren in your life and try to fill it up with just golf, travel, etc. seems very empty and sad.
Latest edition of my local Communist business paper contains article about two-income couples living in McMansions with two pricey SUV’s in the driveway whining about “the high cost of child care” and that being the reason they only have 1 or 2 children.
Humans will no doubt be the first species to outsmart itself out of existence.
Want children? Have some. Don’t want them, don’t have them. Moving on.
People have lost sight of the importance of building a family, the notion of family as being something you build as a living breathing legacy.
The contraceptive right views them the same way.
I don't have the energy to worry about whether other people have children, but I sure get tired of the idea that every woman is fundamentally wrong from the moment of conception because she's capable of having children.
Ping for your interest Megan aren’t you glad you started having kids early?
Children are a blessing any way you look at it, and especially if you ask The Lord!
But those who threaten future loneliness in nursing homes to the childless are missing a consistent inversion of normalcy found in the New Testament. The goal found there is deep union with God the Father in Christ, not provincial bliss. To the eunuchs He promises an inheritance greater than sons and daughters; of the rejected “others”—see Hebrews, after the hall of faith—he says “the world was not worthy of them”.
As for the assumption that children will look after their parents, did he not also promise division? I’ve seen people, good and bad, spend their last years in a nursing home, unvisited by their offspring. Guess who The Lord sent? My Grandmother, me, you.
God cares for us always, that’s why these false oppositions of married/unmarried, parent/childless are bunk. He does not treat us as our sins deserve. He is good to us because that’s the way He IS.
“For I am God, and not man”
not sure if it’s a good thing that liberals are making more liberals.
I have several neighbors within a block of me who have more pets than kids. Some have four or five animals and no kids. Now, I like dogs and cats, but there seem to be quite a lot of people who say they can’t afford kids, yet they manage to cram themselves and the pets into rather small spaces and tight budgets. (I know because I go shopping with neighbors whenever possible, as well as running into them on walks.)
They’ll regret it later, most of them. If I could be 17 again, I’d shoot for a dozen. You can’t buy family.