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I really don't understand the notion that children suffer so terribly that they shouldn't even be born when they don't the optimal material goods or the perfect family. It simply isn't true, because children are very resilient. I know, because my mother had me when she was 17 years old, with no man around and in a country in which she was persecuted and impoverished. She had a simple faith in her ability to raise a child even in the midst of terrible circumstances, and despite those things I can only say that I have grown from those experiences. I just don't buy that you need the perfect career, the perfect house and tons of money lined up in order to do the most natural thing in the world ---- if you wait for those high standards to all be met you could end up never having a child.
I have never met a woman who regretted having a child, even if it was hard at the time. But I know many women who regret never having one, because they were so eager to avoid even the slightest inconvenience in their comfortable life plan.
