I disagree. When you decide to have a child you, as a parent, are responsible for ensuring that the child is cared for, educated and healthy. That does not mean the child owes you anything or that you have control over their sexual orientation or identity. The closemindedness of thinking a parent has a right to force a child to be heterosexual makes me believe that either you are not a parent or that you care little for what others want as long as you are comfortable. It saddens to me see how many people wouldn’t simply love and support their child in this situation.
I have to agree, parenting is not for everyone. Our culture certainly grooms us as children to: grow up, get a job, get married and reproduce. In myself and my wife as well as much of the younger generations choosing not to have children. Many of the reasons I have seen for this include overpopulation (someone mentioned this earlier), decreasing resources and climate change, corruption in politics, high cost of living, lack of jobs, more shootings and, of course, personal choice.
I hear many people make comments such as, “I never wanted kids, but once I had them I realized how great they were”. To me this seems more of a matter of cognitive dissonance, which occurs when a person holds contradictory beliefs, ideas, or values, and is typically experienced as psychological stress when they participate in an action that goes against one or more of them. In order to avoid cognitive dissonance a person would need to change their beliefs to loving children and being happy they had them or there would always be that psychological stress.
I am really enjoying the closure that Jan is providing. I am sure that this is a difficult choice for her to make as well. I definitely can see Alex being a marine biologist, but did not see architect for Holly. I figured she would be an event planner or fashion critic. Can’t wait to see what is in store for Joan and Wally.
I disagree. When you decide to have a child you, as a parent, are responsible for ensuring that the child is cared for, educated and healthy. That does not mean the child owes you anything or that you have control over their sexual orientation or identity. The closemindedness of thinking a parent has a right to force a child to be heterosexual makes me believe that either you are not a parent or that you care little for what others want as long as you are comfortable. It saddens to me see how many people wouldn’t simply love and support their child in this situation.