I worked with a woman in the 1990's who had three kids. She was a very nice person and had some really nice kids. She went to adopt a cat. She had to fill out an extensive form to see if she was qualified. She failed to qualify to adopt a cat!
When my one of my cousins first had kids, I asked here (without warning) with an innocent tone in my voice, "Why did you decide to have kids?" I will never forget what she said to me. Without hesitation she said, "Because I can." That was the wrong answer, in my book.
She immediately took it back and made up another reason why she wanted kids. Some background, she and her husband work full-time. However, several years ago, there was a time she was out of work. Instead of staying at home with the kids, as a caring mother would jump at the opportunity to do, she continued to send her kids to child care.
I rarely visit them due to their homophobia and because she is always yelling at her kids to shape up, do this, do that. She started yelling—at the top of her lungs—to her kids, from the beginning, when they were very, very young. It was very sad to witness this. Too bad she wasn't licensed to she if was she qualified to have kids.
Here's my advice. Don't have kids just because you can biologically do it! The world now has over six (6) billion people. We did it! Yahoo! We (err, you) have populated the earth. We don't have to worry that the human race will not survive from lack of people.
"Well, (whine, whine) I want my name to continue." Bullshit. And it's again, another wrong reason to have kids, ta boot. No one knows who you are now, no one cares who you are now and no one will care about your name continuing in the future. If you want to make a mark on society, you don't do it by having kids. You make a mark by doing something great, now!
Estimated World Population.
(This site also has the estimated U.S. population.)
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