Plan B Forum

●  There are people who don't have children because they don't want to be parents.  That's a valid personal decision.
●  There are people who would have children if society didn't make it so unnecessarily hard.   If we had parental leave, affordable daycare, affordable housing, or wages that would support a family on one income, they would start a family.
●  There are people who would have children if they had a reliable partner.
●  There are people who want children, but are infertile or otherwise medically compromised.
●  There are people who became parents when they didn't want to because they couldn't, or didn't want to, get an abortion.
●  There are people who are parents because it just happened and they abandoned their children.
●  There are people who are unhappy and/or terrible parents.
●  There are people who have children they are thrilled about, whether they were planned or it just happened.

To say that any of these people don't have a stake in the future of our country is shortsighted and cruel, not to mention just plain wrong.   It is in the best interests of all of us to have a healthy, educated, and ethical next generation to run society when it is their time, whether they are our children or someone else's.   If your vision of the future includes only what will benefit your kin, you have no business running a carpool, much less a nation.

Only those on the two ends of the spectrum are happy about it, and it behooves all of us to do what we can as a society to help all those people who aren't on the ends of the spectrum. If parenthood were truly a personal choice for all, the children we end up with would have a better world to inherit.
(used with permission of Miss C., whose blog "What...  You Think This Is Funny?" I read daily.

ex-khobar Andy wrote: ↑

Sat Aug 03, 2024 1:33 am

This story that Vance had sex with a sofa is of course overblown - it was a love seat and a simple misunderstanding that anybody could make.