is having children selfish?
I am the proud, happy mother of four children. My oldest are adults now and I'm considering having one last kick at the can, so to speak, before I retire from doing the mom thing.
My youngest is eight and although we're not exactly buying them 8 pairs of Nikes every year, the kids are well cared for and generally healthy. They all get really good grades in school and my adult children are working. There isn't a dropout in the bunch.
Yet the other day when I brought up maybe doing the mom thing again, a childless aquaintance's boyfriend (who is a teacher of all things) accused me of "selfishly over-populating the earth") and said I should be ashamed.
I live in Canada. The birth rate is really low here and the town I live in, you can hear a pin drop from across town. I could see his point if I lived somewhere overpopulated...but here?
And if we weren't contributing, but we are. Besides, if every parent followed his "good advice" he would be out of a job... and his childless stay-at-home girlfriend drains more resources and contributes less to the world than my gainfully employed kids, while we're throwing stones...
Would you have another child in your late 30's or early 40's? Have you had one at this age? What are the pros and cons?
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