Can you imagine the world without children? The same as I cannot imagine it without sun, or the flowers, the world would be sad and ugly without children laughs and play. They can somehow disarm the most heartless person, see behind our false pretenses, throw the most genuine, naive comment and catch you unguarded, make you smile in the saddest moments.
There are children playing in the street who could solve some of my top problems in physics, because they have modes of sensory perception that I lost long ago
And smile, you will and forget your problems!
I love my child. As I should. As a mother, my job is to take care of what is possible and trust God with the impossible.
I kiss him when he s already asleep, more than when he s awake, choosing to show him my love through the education and the time I give to him. As children will blackmail you worse than an enemy ha ha
Still, as much as I love them, and I am pro children, I understand people who choose not to bring babies into this mad world.
Families with babies and families without babies are sorry for each other.
Well into the third millennium of civilization, we re disillusioned to think we re any better at handling wars, cold wars, sickness and diseases than we were three generations ago. We may have cured typhus and cholera, but we still die of cancer (over two hundred kinds out there) and even of flu and cold in the poor areas. The fact that high-income countries have the highest proportion of deaths caused by noncommunicable diseases (the four main NCDs are cardiovascular diseases, cancers, diabetes and chronic lung diseases) makes you wonder. More money does not mean we re healthier, it does not even help us much once we re on a hospital bed. The medicine we re convinced to pay for its research and manufacture it's NOT effective against our diseases, apparently. Still, we continue to feed a billion profit industry and keep on dying. We re not any better at handling hate, discrimination, rage, interracial attacks, starvation, oppression, inequality, street crime, family crime, drugs, alcohol, poor education, abuse. All these are realities we may have the privilege to choose ignore, as they may not directly affect us, but they re all out there. And we can't ignore them forever.
That's why, when we choose either to have children or not,
why we keep forgetting the duty we have to work at a better world for them to arrive in ?!
Life doesn't count for much unless you're willing to do your small part to leave our children – all of our children – a better world. Even if it's difficult. Even if the work seems great. Even if we don't get very far in our lifetime.
The debate goes on, on whether to have children or not. Never mind statistics and the fact that we also live in an aging world. Bottom line, even if awareness grows with regard to global conditions, families still make the decision primarily based on their very own circumstances. The majority still thinks babies are a blessing, and hope this believe stays. The womens who choose not to have children are in minority and this will probably be always so, too. Because if old men can make war, is the children who will make history.
and ....Not having children makes less work—but it makes a quiet house.
quotes by Ray Merritt, Susan Glaspell, J Robert Oppenheimer and Barrack Obama
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