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Childless Couples - Blog Entry

07 May 2008 05:17 AM

Not a very rational comment - just another selfish reason to have children. So you are going to bring a life into this world so someone will take care of you when you are older? Someone you can live vicariously through possibly? As a matter of opinion....I ask the very same question back to those who choose to continue to over populate the world due to their own narcissitic needs, drives and fears. If you really want to make a difference in this world them let's take care of the children that are already here - fostering, adopting, etc..... We have thousands of unwanted and uncared for children in foster care right now so should we not first start there? There are many ways to help make our world a better place to live in - continuing to over populate the world is not one of them. Continuing to have children is more selfish then not in this day and age and I think people who choose not to have children should be respected for their decsion. I do not have children but have spent much time in my profession as a Psychologist working with children from distruptive and abusive families who otherwise would have beocome another statistic. Had I had my own children I never would have been able to get my Ph.D or build and run my own practice or work those loooong hours and touch the lives of the many children that I have provided services to. So in that sense not having children was anything but selfish as it allowed me to make a difference on a larger scale.