Random Musing: Why we have kids
This post has nothing to do with anything, but the other night I was hit so powerfully with a conviction and I just had to share it. It literally came to me while I slept. In my dream, I'd been visiting a harried friend with two rambunctious kids. I've never really understood why it is that humans continue the widespread practice of having children. I recognize this internal thing that most of us are born with that makes us yearn to procreate; that can't be denied. Way back throughout most of history, people didn't question this yearning. And it's not like there were a whole lot of other options, anyhow. If you were "doing it," at some point you were likely to get pregnant, and you'd have the kid; end of story. But in modern times, there are tons of options to prevent pregnancy, and people are different. We don't blindly accept fate anymore. We still feel the inner tug to procreate, but in today's society, it's perfectly acceptab...