Is it responsible to procreate?
If I am keeping it 100 and being honest; I often wonder if having a child and procreating is the responsible thing to-for me.
First, there is the state of our country and world. How and why would I want to raise a child in a country that is so divided and in a world with so much hate.
Secondly, there are the issues of my genes. I know little about any of my family’s mental health. Though what I do know is scary. My family tree is riddled with people
Thanking their own lives, drugs abuse and addiction and alcohol addiction. As well as depression and abusiveness. Not only is the in the family tree, I am in recovery for drugs and alcohol (12 years now). I also suffer from major depression, anxiety, ADHA, and mild OCD. So how responsible is it for me to pass those genres on to a baby? With what I know is it irresponsible to potentially subject my child to the same struggles I have suffered?
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