If someone was a good parent, they wouldn't need to have a day singled out to honour them, because they would be honoured and respected by the children they had raised every day. Then again, that's an ideal situation, isn't it?
I won't disagree that it's difficult to be a good parent. In addition to having crappy genetics that I wouldn't wish on an enemy, I freely admit that I don't have what it takes to be a good parent, which is why I'm childless. I like kids, and they tend to like me, but I'm not cut out for the kind of investment of time and energy that raising children full-time would require.
In some ways, it's too bad that this society puts so much emphasis on breeding, and how all women 'should' feel the urge to procreate, or they aren't 'real women'. (Which is hogwash, of course.)
I was fourteen when I decided I didn't want to ever have children. Never have regretted that decision. :)
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Date: 2008-05-13 12:13 am (UTC)I won't disagree that it's difficult to be a good parent. In addition to having crappy genetics that I wouldn't wish on an enemy, I freely admit that I don't have what it takes to be a good parent, which is why I'm childless. I like kids, and they tend to like me, but I'm not cut out for the kind of investment of time and energy that raising children full-time would require.
In some ways, it's too bad that this society puts so much emphasis on breeding, and how all women 'should' feel the urge to procreate, or they aren't 'real women'. (Which is hogwash, of course.)
I was fourteen when I decided I didn't want to ever have children. Never have regretted that decision. :)