06-30-2007, 12:59 AM
This is an old post that has a subject we seem to hit every once in a while. This is an interesting slant, though - fighting global warming through population control.
We've waited until the clock is really tired of ticking because my wife saw that same population clock in 5th grade or something, and she let me know right when we met that population control was a huge issue for her.
So then we're cruising along in our mid-30's and she wakes up one day and decides she wants to have a child. It was really funny - she literally woke up and said "I've decided I want to have a child."
Since I thought it was kind of out of nowhere, I replied "Hmmm. No, thanks."
She didn't really see the humor in that answer. Anyway, we're balancing the urge to raise a family with the whole overpopulation issue with some research into adoption. My genes suck, so no need to really pass these on.
It's funny how people are on whether or not other people are having kids. We've been called lazy, selfish, strange, and stupid because we didn't want to bring more people onto the planet.
We were getting an even weirder reaction when I tried to explain to people why we were adopting and that we really didn't need a referral to a fertility doc.
Got sick of explaining that, so now I just take the fertility doc's cards and let all my friends think I shoot blanks. It's just easier that way....
Enough of a rant on the pressures to have/not have kids. The logic on this from an environmental standpoint is hard to argue: higher mileage per gallon cars are great, but less people to drive altogether is tough to beat.
We've waited until the clock is really tired of ticking because my wife saw that same population clock in 5th grade or something, and she let me know right when we met that population control was a huge issue for her.
So then we're cruising along in our mid-30's and she wakes up one day and decides she wants to have a child. It was really funny - she literally woke up and said "I've decided I want to have a child."
Since I thought it was kind of out of nowhere, I replied "Hmmm. No, thanks."
She didn't really see the humor in that answer. Anyway, we're balancing the urge to raise a family with the whole overpopulation issue with some research into adoption. My genes suck, so no need to really pass these on.
It's funny how people are on whether or not other people are having kids. We've been called lazy, selfish, strange, and stupid because we didn't want to bring more people onto the planet.
We were getting an even weirder reaction when I tried to explain to people why we were adopting and that we really didn't need a referral to a fertility doc.
Got sick of explaining that, so now I just take the fertility doc's cards and let all my friends think I shoot blanks. It's just easier that way....
Enough of a rant on the pressures to have/not have kids. The logic on this from an environmental standpoint is hard to argue: higher mileage per gallon cars are great, but less people to drive altogether is tough to beat.