LINK: Sara Butler discusses Amy Lamboley's take on people who have children versus people who don't. Having a job which allows me to witness hundreds if not thousands of parent-and-children interactions per weekend, I think there's a little bit of truth in both their positions: Ms. Lamboley is right that anyone who observed lots of parents with children might conclude that while bad parenting might be an explanation for a fair bit of the scenes that occur, there might just be something in the fact of having children that causes otherwise rational people to lose it totally, and this might cause said observer to conclude having children is entirely not worth it.
That being said, of course, Ms. Butler is right "that having kids is taking on the ultimate duty," (not unlike marriage in some respects, I think) and that people willing to devote themselves totally to it will avoid many (though, goodness knows, not all) of the "problems" a casual observer notices.
"Thou shalt not extinguish thine anger, but shall master it,
that thy conscience may not be blunted by adjustment
to wrong causes."
-The Dutch Ten Commandments to Foil the Nazis
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