There was an article in this morning's paper about a therapist who helps couples decide whether or not they should have children!
I really thought I had seen everything.
Mind you, anything that makes couples more thoughtful about having children, in good conscience I have to be for, because I think people are generally mindless about parenting. They have children because the mother-in-law wants a grandchild, the father-in-law wants a name-bearer, other people are doing it, because it's the expected thing, because they want to dress up a little girl or teach a son to play catch!
Actually I think a modest percentage of our population should have children!
It's not that children aren't exquisite entities, but because it's an endeavor undertaken like no other. From that moment of birth to the day you or they die, children are your passionate delight and worry - 24/7 for the rest of your life! And so few people think beyond that inexorably adorable blanketed bundle the nurse places in your newly crooked arms.
But if it takes therapy for that kind of realism to set in, so be it. However, whatever happened to two people being able to communicate with each other on a decision as intimately personal as this one?
Maybe there should have been more therapy before those two people became involved!
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