cliff (01/29/83)
I will never be the genetic father a baby. I like babies, toddlers, kindergartners and children in general. This like of children is shared by many people who will conceive and raise (with or without both parents working outside of their home) the children that will be the adults of tomorrow. My decision is based on my belief that currently, and for the next many years, enough children will be born intentionally, and `accidently' to consume and manage available resources. I hope that John goes completes the BS necessary to get his vasectomy if he hasn't already and wants to be sure not to father children. I started the paperwork when I turned eighteen, and finally had the operation performed three months after turning nineteen. I have not regretted it, but have felt small pangs of remorse when entertaining little children although I have been quite happy to be able to enjoy sex without either partner having to play with little plastic bags, or hormones with questionable side-effects. The raising of children to think for themselves, and to be aware of their environment is quite an important issue for women and men to contemplate. Maybe as people start to care and respect every member of the human race, more people will decide to adopt, or help raise other peoples children without feeling the sorrow some women unable to conceive feel now. Lets hope that both parents and school systems will be more comfortable teaching birth control/responsiblity to children then lecturing children about the evils of sexual intercourse. Yow! Religion or no religion, we are all going to spend some time on this earth between our birth and our death. What better use of this time do we have then to make things more confortable for all of us? Aren't *all* children our (the human race's) children? I don't need to father another, I can only hope to meet/teach/learn_from a fraction of them anyway. --Cliff ...ucbvax!lbl-csam!lanl-a!unm-ivax!cliff