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Quite right. People who aren't ready shoudn't have kids, and I'm not trying to convince anyone that they should have kids if they're not ready. I feel that truth needs a defender in this case, and that the truth is, as you agreed, that the best life includes the best things in life, one of which are children. I say what I say not to injure or sway the unwilling, but to weigh in on the side of truth for the undecided. I also have a debt to pay. I see the trouble in your mother-in-law in many people--in all people. She yearned for the joy of grandmotherhood, and was staunchly raised in "this is the way we do things, so this is the way they are done" as my mother was (the last gasp of the old way in those who had forgotten why they did what they did and couldn't defend it against the tide, perhaps) so she didn't care about what you thought enough not to nag. I don't condone unfit parenting, but I don't condone people trying to say "one thing's as good as another" about fundamental human issues, either.

]]The House of Israel having never been Jewish.

]Could you point me to a comprehensive source on that, please?

Sure, just click on my Profile.

...the best life includes the best things in life, one of which are children.

Must the best life include all the best things in life?