If a parent's love for their children was as inescapable and automatic as you posit, there would not be the neglected and abused children we hear tales of every day.
If you love your children, it is because you chose to. Many men and women sire and dam children with nary a second thought to giving of themselves for the betterment of their offspring.
SD
What you fail to realize is that these people who neglect and abuse their children would no doubt defend to the death the fact that they "love their children".
This is a segment of the population I happen to work with and this is certianly true!
So, apparently the "decision" to "love your children" does not gaurantee that one would, in reality, love their children at all.
No, my statement still stands. I never made a decision to "love my children". I simply do. I cannot help but do so.
Your suggestion of those who neglect and abuse their children cannot help ~but~ to bolster my point. For, these people who would be adamant that they "love" their children are so turned over to their sinful natures that they can "decide" to "love their children" all day long, but they are too selfish to actually do so.
Thanks for your analogy!
Jean