[WarEagle]

there is absolutely nothing in life to compare with having children, but you won't know if you don't . . . of course, I'll never know what it is like to be a totally self-centered child-LESS person

I resent that highly. This idea that you cannot be an adult or non-self centered without being a parent is a total crock. I chose not to have children because of many things, but the foremost reason is that I do not have the burning desire to be a parent.

If you need to be a parent, God bless you. But don't think that all virtue comes from parenthood, and that parenthood makes one automatically virtuous and non-self centered. My multi-child sister proves the theory that parenthood and sainthood are not synonymous.

[mamaduck]

2 + 2 = 5

Unless you have children you have NO VESTED INTEREST in the future

Children Completely Alter the way you look at the world, and you don't know what that means until you have them . . .