Perhaps God had a reason for not blessing them with a child naturally.
Apparently they didn't.
This article made me want to barf.
The whining and sniveling is tough to take.
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Sight unseen, no take backsies.
I'll take the older child as well if he cramps your lifestyle.
This was posted to yahoo. This woman, as far as I could read, was universall panned by the commenters. No sympathy at all whatsoever.
Bless Mr. and Mrs. Garland’s little hearts. It’s quite special that they are putting out there, in permanent form, how unwanted one of their children will be. Will they give one child a name meaning misery or something similar to let the little ones know which one was the extra, or will they let the little ones guess, or perhaps play them off against each other to “earn” Mommy’s and Daddy’s love?
I would, like many decent people, happily take the unwanted child from these spoiled brats. My guess is that it’s a values problem with two liberal parents raised to feel entitled, and there will be nothing wrong with either child - at birth. I would feel sorry for the one they kept though.
“Mrs. Albert Garland” patiently explains, in their defense, that she and her husband only ordered one child (they got pregnant through IVF), and it’s really, really unfair that they got two.”
As soon as I read the first sentence of this article, I just knew that it would come out that these people were part of the IVF brigade. It’s disgusting to talk or think about children like they are commodities to be purchased or ordered off a menu, but it seems symptomatic of a whole crowd of people choosing that road nowadays. Children are not accessories, or lifestyle choices, but human beings, and your own flesh and blood - a gift from God.
I feel sorry for these children and hope that they never have the bad luck to encounter these articles on the internet years from now to see how their own parents though so little of them before they were born.
Well done article.
“Breathtaking narcissim” will be repaid many times over in their later years with their children. They will richly deserve it.
What a fun couple. The kids will grow up wondering which one wasn’t wanted. I can hear it now: It’s your fault we can’t go to Disneyworld. No it’s your fault. No yours.
Send me one or both. I’d be more than happy to love and raise them.
Mrs. Element & I had trouble having kids. Came from families with 4 kids; hoped for something similar. 10 yrs to get the first. Went the assisted fertility route as we approached 40. Didn’t work. Tried again. Quadruplets.
Best. Thing. That. Ever. Happened.
Frightening? Yeah. We worried they would come early and have problems. And it would have been our fault. By God’s grace, they are healthy.
Lots of work? You bet. Expensive? Yeah. Can’t think of anything I would rather have more. Stressful for me and the Mrs.? Yeah, but life is stressful, and God is good.
It is truly sad the Garlands’ can’t see beyond themselves for a moment. There is joy and blessing here, and they are letting it slip away from them.
Wouldn’t you like to just tell this stupid spoiled witch to her face that she’s a stupid, spoiled witch? And then slap her to make sure she gets the point?
I remember this story, hated it then and hate it even more now.
I prayed for twins because they run in my family but alas was only blessed with single babies!!