Spoken by a woman who seems to delight in pumping out baby after baby. There was once a woman like you in a neighborhood in which my wife and I lived. She called her “Miss Mother.” Seems appropriate.
Nevertheless, if you are trying to tie me into the leftist philosophy it won’t work. My views on parenthood were well-formed when I was 18 (1958) and totally unfamiliar with leftist politics. I had seen enough of the psychic torture of being someone’s child and I resolved then that I would not inflict this upon any other. And I never did.
There are other factors, the cost of raising a child and my family’s disconcerting heredity being two of them, but that was the primary one. And I make no apologies for it.
If others get satisfaction out of it, fine. I was just pointing out that today’s social situation seems to call for a “wait and see” attitude before inflicting it upon a new arrival.
Yes, I understood what you said.