it's 30 degrees here...kids will come to school without coats and proper attire and supplies today...no breakfast and maybe no dinner last night...
That should never happen...We sure do have our hands full....
It's too late after the fact, so as a society, we do indeed have our hands full, I agree.
This, however, is why I rail at irresponsible procreation.
Our kids were planned.
We knew that we could afford them,
that arrangements for their care were in place
once they were school age and the gestapo returned to work,
that they would be educated,
and that they had at least a pretty good shot at a tolerable life.
Without confidence in these calculations,
we would not have had them
just because we thought we were entitled
to the experience of parenthood.
I'm a pretty selfish person.
I put a huge priority on my own comfort and convenience and even amusement.
Yet, even I was sufficiently responsible to know
when to be and when not to be a breeder.
To me, it doesn't seem like asking a lot,
but once again,
it goes back to valuing life in qualitative rather than absolute terms.
