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just let me add to the list of things: love, concern, and understanding. 
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Why Children - Culture, Family, Travel, Consumer Reviews - Posted: 21st Feb, 2005 - 8:22pm
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Bringing kids into a world of mediocrity and sorrow
Post Date: 9th May, 2003 - 5:25pm / Post ID: #
Why Should I Have Children?
What are your thoughts about bringing kids into the world in its current state. I'm talking mainly about the instability revolving around terrorism and the like. Then theres the employment problems most areas are having. How do you feel about bringing kids into the world the way it is?
I personally think it's pretty incredible and awesome. I'm really behind it. I have a couple of friends that are close to my age and have two or three year olds and it's really awesome to see these kids grow up and see these really smart, really right-on, very independent thinking parents raising these incredible kids. That is like really really awesome especially in times like these. I think it is so important to raise kids that are going to grow up and question things and live exciting independent lives. I personally can't wait to have kids.
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I think the world is becoming really bad and that's why I think that people who want to have children must be committed in a stable relationship in marriage. So in this way the children will be able to see their home as a refuge in times of distress....there are too many single parents in the world and it's big challenge for those parents to raise their kids in an environment like we are living right now.
Post Date: 10th May, 2003 - 8:11pm / Post ID: #
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I think it's great for people to have kids, provided the parents are capable of raising a child and making sure it has the three basic components of life: food, shelter, clothing. And I think now is as good a time as any to have them. Because no matter when you have kids, there will be something going on in the world.
Post Date: 21st May, 2003 - 12:27pm / Post ID: #
Why Should I Have Children?
Well guys, my first child is due anytime now. Supposed to be mid June, give or take a couple of weeks. Or so the doc says. The world is full of going-ons, some good some bad, sometimes good, sometimes bad. The important thing I guess, is to give our love to our child as much as we can, the way we want ourselves to be given. Not over-sheltering, not being unavailable. Be there for them but also be able to expose them to the realities of growing up in this world. Let them know that there will be ups and downs. The important thing is to teach them what is 'right' and what is 'wrong', and to be able to tell the difference.
I hope my wife and I will be able to bring and nurture our little one into a upstanding, outstanding member of society.
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Here is an excellent article about some great reasons to bring children into the world - dealing with what they do to you.
https://blogs.salon.com/0001772/2005/02/07.html#a462
What Children Bring to the Table
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| What children bring to the table is pure love, like a fifty pound nugget of gold a yokel hefts onto the bar in full view of everyone in the saloon. One-by-one we leave the gambling tables, the liquor, and the player piano to sidle up to the stranger with the pretty rock. In that instant, love comes over us like the rush of a mighty wind, filling the room and touching us as if with tongues of fire. The irresistible pull of our desire sucks the air from our lungs and leaves us weak, panting, and forever addicted. The yokel says, "This is love. Do you understand now?" And your heart says, "Yes!" But this is no ordinary yes. This is the yes of your bones, the ontological yes of your being, the yes that existed before all time. This is what you were made for and only now do you see it. You cry out, and your body shakes, and you fall to your knees in submission. This is the world's most powerful drug, the one that all others can only imitate. Once you have tasted it you will pay any price for more, or wander the earth to honor even the memory of it. |
The whole article is like this. Children brighten every aspect of our world. They make real men and women of those of us who are fortunate enough to be associated with them. They teach us compassion, understanding and patience. They reawaken our sense of joy and wonder in the world about us.
Yes, there are scary things going on around us. But if we were to refuse the opportunity to bring children into the world because of fear that they might suffer or experience hardship, then we deny them the right to rise above the suffering and hardship. We would then deny a very special being the opportunity to be.
The only really valid reason I can see to refuse to have children is an acknowledgement of the potential parents' failures as human beings. This doesn't include people who sincerely want to have children but their bodies won't work properly, nor does it include people who deal with mental and physical health problems that make childbearing dangerous for all involved. It is (I hope) an indictment against those who arrogantly proclaim that they are "too good" or "too busy" for children.
As far as I can tell, those who say that they won't bring a child into this world because of the troubles and instability that are in it are searching for an excuse to avoid a difficult but wonderful opportunity. Perhaps they are bowing before peer pressure or political correctness to fit into the mold that the world has been developing for a long time.
I see it as a weak and cowardly excuse. It takes character to bring a child in to the world, and to sacrifice the time and energy needed to raise that child up properly. It is humbling and satisfying. Terrifying and glorious. It brings laughter, tears, heartbreak and joy. All at the same time.
And I am rambling, so this is the end of this rant.
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I do not believe that the world is deteriorating, as some of you have said. Yes, there is terrorism, there are bad things in the world, but there always have been in one form or another; world wars, dictatorships and slaveries. I do not think the world has gotten worse, but only that certain bad aspects have been replaced by others. If you are enjoying your own life, then there is no reason to believe that your child will not be enjoying his own.
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