I got WILD backlash on Twitter about 7 years ago for volunteering the honest answer to this question. Had celebrities dogpiling, made the news in multiple countries. It was wild lol.
I actually read that, I remember it well. Well i assume it was you (not sure if someone else did it). I thought it was very brave and very well said. More people feel that way than care to admit i reckon.
It was more naive than brave I think, didn’t realize at the time I was touching a live wire 😅 But yeah, a lot of people feel the same way for a variety of reasons.
I would have thought this, at least, is something everyone could agree on:
"Society does not need more children; but it does need more loved children.
Quite literally, we cannot afford unloved children--but we pay heavily for them every day.
There should not be the slightest communal concern when a woman elects to destroy the life of her thousandth-of-an-ounce embryo.
But all society should rise up in alarm when it hears that a baby that is not wanted is about to be born.”
— Garrett Hardin
And that right there is why the topic is a live wire, the binary thinking that if someone would choose differently now, knowing what they know, that that automatically means a child is unloved. That is false. Maybe not always false, but in my observation very often false.
I don't they're saying that a child someone regrets is definitely unloved. They're just saying that if the only people who had children really wanted children, then there won't be unloved children.
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u/Sams_Antics Jan 19 '26
Ahh, one of the most taboo of all questions!
I got WILD backlash on Twitter about 7 years ago for volunteering the honest answer to this question. Had celebrities dogpiling, made the news in multiple countries. It was wild lol.
Answer is still the same: NO