Reply #5: I used to have no thought one way or the other about people

[patdem]

who did not want children. Some people claimed it was a selfish motive.

Then, in VA a religious couple who had adopted several children murdered one of their adopted children. He was unruly. They tied him up and bascially kept him as a prisoner and beat him eventually to death. The religious community backed them up, claiming they were a generous couple that had adopted children and selflessly raised them as their own...yada yada yada. That was their 'image'. That was the 'image' they loved to have...selfless religious folk!

Right then and there I realized that any person who does NOT want children and goes to lengths to not HAVE children are the lest selfish. They would be branded as selfish, when killing a child could be branded selfless? My mind was bogled. I am not saying you would kill a child, but those 'selfless' adopters of innocent children did.... If they were HONEST, they would NEVER have had children period!