Parental Crime – To Have Or Not To Have
So you just got married. And what else is there to do afterwards if not to have a child? Why indeed? If your answers are:
a) It’s the natural thing to do. After marriage, comes children
b) My parents are itching to hold their first newborn grandchild
c) I’d like to have a miniature version of me
d) God has told me to go forth and multiply
e) All my friends already have three kids and I feel left behind
f) It will make our love stronger
g) I want to have babies because they’re so cute
h) I want to make the world a better place
Then you should really rethink, because,
a) It’s irrelevant to say something is natural without knowing why it is. You can’t just flap around, insisting “Because, because it is!” in a manner of a parrot.
b) Do you live your live for your parents or for yourself? If your folks are so lonely, get them a Golden Retriever or enroll them to the local bingo games.
c) Selfish reason to have a miniature version of yourself, why not just wait until cloning is legal?
d) Stop living in the Old Testament era. Mother Nature actually pleads mankind to stop overpopulating the world – why else do you think there are so many natural disasters happening?
e) So you have no mind of your own and you just do whatever it is that other people are doing. Charming.
f) Do you have a dog? No? Then get one and see what happens. If your husband can’t be bothered to take the dog out early in the morning, chance is he won’t be bothered to change the diapers at three o’clock in the morning either. Stop thinking that he will turn into Ross – that wimpy guy from Friends.
g) Cute? Err…they do grow up you know? And by the time they are thirteen and screaming ‘I-hate-you‘s to your face, don’t even lie and say that you don’t regret having them. All parents say they don’t but they act otherwise.
h) If you want to make this world to be a better place, start from yourself first and see how that goes.
2 comments
i’d rather enjoy my time with him alone first before having children. i’m not ready for that greater power yet!
geez, so what’s the reason left to have children?
Yeh, having children is such an enormous responsibility, it’s beyond anything else. I’m just pissed off that people didn’t think through more properly about having them wisely. They just HAVE children because they THINK they do. Especially responding the posted blog previously about parents abandoning their child and everything, it really disgusts me.
And not to mention there are parents everywhere complaining about the cost of diapers/milk powders/school fees/hiring a nanny … I mean, why have a child when you’re only complaining about it? And parents also put a lot of expectations on their children and trying to live their unlived lives through their children. Which is selfish, because it means they want to have children for their purpose…
Ah feck. Might as well write another blog on this.
As for the reason, I’d go gor reason h), but how can anyone guarantee that they’d make this world a better place?
Personally, I can’t even guarantee I’d raise a perfectly good dog into this world. And that’s just a DOG
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