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To: A Ruckus of Dogs

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Do you think everyone should have children, regardless of their ability to raise them?

Knowing ahead of time that you are unsuitable as a parent is not being selfish. It's being enlightened.
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You make it sound like the ability to raise children is genetically hard-wired. Is that what you believe?

Any person who thinks they are a suitable parent is definitely not. Any person who realizes they will probably be inadequate but will do their best in love is suitable.


247 posted on 01/03/2005 9:59:05 AM PST by frgoff
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To: frgoff
Any person who thinks they are a suitable parent is definitely not. Any person who realizes they will probably be inadequate but will do their best in love is suitable.

That is not borne out by observation. Plenty of people have kids because of social pressure, knowing they were unsuitable, and then do a lousy job of raising them. I have seen it in my own family.

264 posted on 01/03/2005 10:05:56 AM PST by A Ruckus of Dogs
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LOL!! The suitable parent comment reminded me of my parents. My dad always thought he wasn't a good dad. I think he was a wonderful dad. Meanwhile, during one of the last arguments my mom and I had before we did not talk to each other she told me she was a wonderful mother.


275 posted on 01/03/2005 10:09:47 AM PST by HungarianGypsy
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