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From: woody@dsd.UUCP (Janet Hallock)
Newsgroups: net.kids
Subject: Is It Nice?
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Date: Wed, 22-Aug-84 17:54:31 EDT
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Posted: Wed Aug 22 17:54:31 1984
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I'd like to ask the parents reading this a couple of questions:

  1.  Did you "always" want children, or did something convince you at
some time that it would be nice (or whatever modifier you prefer here)
to become a parent?

  2.  If something DID convince you, what was it?

And as a corollary of those questions, this third one:  If one half of
a couple wants children and the other doesn't (or doesn't KNOW), what
should be done?  I firmly believe that people who know they don't want
children should certainly not have them.  But if they're not sure?  And
their S.O. desperately wants a child?

I'm asking this of PARENTS for a reason.  I don't want speculation from
people who've never had children; I have plenty of speculation of my
own.  I'd like to hear from someone with some concrete experience.

Janet Hallock
...!dsd!woody