[durasell]

They're not misguided. Their priorities are different. They see the world as a very tough place and getting tougher. They simply want to prepare their kids for that...there's nothing wrong with wanting your kids to have their own comfortable home, an interesting profession and the ability to afford a few of the luxuries in life.
While your priorities may be in service to God, country and community, with all the other stuff secondary, they see the other stuff as important.

[Antoninus]

They're not misguided. Their priorities are different.

I never said they weren't different. But different and misguided aren't antonyms.

there's nothing wrong with wanting your kids to have their own comfortable home, an interesting profession and the ability to afford a few of the luxuries in life.

Who said there was? My point was, the desire for material goods should be pretty low on a person's priority list. Much lower, certainly, than having children.

As for me, I chose to give my kids the greatest gift that any parent can give their children. No, not a car on their 16th birthday. Not a $100K education at a marxist indoctrination center. Not a nice little condo. Lots of siblings. There's nothing in the world like a brother or sister.