[Allegra]

There is a Judge, madame, but it ain't me.

Oh, you don't have to tell me that.

It just seems you were being a tad judgmental, considering you really don't know why someone is childless.

It's not always by choice.

And even if it is, that's between the person and God and really not for others to judge.

Unless you're perfect, of course. And I've never met any human yet who is.

[najida]

Exactly!

It's cruel enough to lose your fertility to illness...or to find that you have to choose caring for someone else instead of a child or well, the twists and turns that life takes. But to have others act like you're some kind of monster because you don't have kids just pours salt on a never healing wound.

Many childless folks would have loved to have had children and would have made good parents. But we also believe that kids need a stable home, two parents etc. So we try to get one and two ironed out first, after fertility of course.

Again, I've had a good life. I'm a great Aunt, an improving 'zookeeper' and on my way to becoming a relatively decent human being. I wish the same for everyone else :)

[Tijeras_Slim]

I can't believe this is still going.

[Antoninus]

It just seems you were being a tad judgmental, considering you really don't know why someone is childless. It's not always by choice.

Find me one place where I condemned someone who was childless because of biological sterility. You won't so don't bother looking.

There are noble reasons to remain childless--devoting your life to God, or a military career, for example. These are selfless acts. It is only those who remain childless for the pursuit of material goods, the luxury life, political power, or laziness that I find fault with.

And even if it is, that's between the person and God and really not for others to judge.

I'm not a relativist. And God tends to get irked when someone calls evil good and no one stands up to correct them. On my day of judgement, when I stand before God, I know that I will be faulted if I remained silent when I heard someone praise evil and denounce good. I would much rather incur your censure in this life than His in the next.