Congrats on your commitment! If only it were your commitment and yours alone. As you know it takes a village to raise a child, therefore it takes the commitment of a society to raise children. They are our asset, and our liability. If we don’t raise and educate them with good values they simply replicate the problems of their parents ad infinitum. A good example would be homophobia.
This forum isn’t really the sort of place that I would have this type of discussion (its very emotional as your response indicates.) However since I opened the door, I will say this. Your decision to have a child, or multiple involves me just as my parents decision involved a large chunk of society albeit indirectly. What right have YOU or anyone else to declare that you are SO important that your genes need to be spread that much. If you are THAT important then by all means spread away. Just know that you should bear the FULL cost of doing so. Since in todays society you don’t, society deserves a veto.
You have divined correctly that I do not have children. I am not against people having children in the least, I am actually for it. I just feel that it is an even larger financial decision than buying a house and yet most people give it even less thought.
