[Buttons12]

Happy to oblige, I’d like nothing better than to participate in the boom — when a good Christian comes along. Such men are getting scarce. And even then, sparks should fly.

[Wyrd bið ful aræd]

Against all my principles, I don't want kids. I'm the 2nd of 7, and people naturally assume that the experience put me off kids -- the opposite is true. I loved helping raise my younger siblings and I love babies and little kids. On top of that, when I hear people say they don't like kids and don't want any, I tut disapprovingly...Even though I think the latter myself.

I reconcile my hypocrisy by assuming that most of my millennial peers don't want children because they're lazy and self-indulgent and can't be bothered, whereas I just read too much Hemingway as a kid and can't get past being Robert Wilson. I'd make a cool uncle for sure, though. Similar to Al Gore sounding the alarm about global warming from his private jet, as long as the rest of you conservatives have plenty of kids the problem will be solved despite my lack of participation.