Last time I checked, this was a free country. Anyone can choose to or refuse to bear children. And refusing doesn't make them unamerican, unloving, selfish, etc etc etc.
A lot of us have damned good reasons for not bringing children into this already difficult enough world, only to live in a situation where they cannot be adequately emotionally and physically cared for. Caring enough not to put someone through that is a hell of a lot more compassionate than anything that any of the "thou must bear" types on this forum can come up with.
Free country? Individual rights? My non-pregnant a$$!
Clarification:
"Free country, individual rights according to the way certain types around here would have it, my non-pregnant A$$."
Yes...that's better.
Focusing all spare time and energy on animals when humans need help is pitiful folly.
If you disagree, then I pity you.
I never posted that everyone should bear a child - simply that everyone should - NOT MUST - invest themselves in helping children in need.
You are amazing to equate moral norms (people SHOULD do X) with socialist mandates (people MUST do X).
May you enjoy pampering your non-pregnant ass (I thought this thread was about kittens, only to find out you own an ass and have her on birth control).