why bring children into this world... when history shows the world isn't becoming a better place.?

Question

I make the most of life but... *When I watch news, almost everything is negative... when will there is a large enough target audience that need 'good news'? *Most people do not enjoy their work. *There are more people in the world struggling to survive financially, then there are rich and wealthy people. *Most people have an unhealty interest in other people's lives (the topic of most 'common' conversations - celebrites!) *More people accept lies than they do truth (whether its government or your friends relationship with their partner) *People are obsessed with religion (the cause of many wars/fights) *People find it difficult to accept people for who they are on the inside and put emphasis on image (whether it be your clothes or your race). Would you call this a beautiful world to live in... and why? Why would you bring your children into this world?

Answer 1

I understand your pain. You are the wisest of the wise for realizing the very same thing I have come to realize. People will make fun of you. IGNORE THEIR ANSWERS!!! The truth is the world is constantly getting worse. People have no hope. They put it in their family or in their religion or in their country or in their job. The problem is they do not realize that none of those things bring hope!! This is why so many people are depressed and stressed.

Now, I think there is one place to find hope. Not in religion, but in Jesus! Whether you agree with me or not is your choice, but I suggest not a religion, but a faith. People hide behind religions to make it feel like they can earn their way to a better life or standing in society. Looking at Jesus is not religious but an offering of hope that comes from another source. Do not be angry though as they are. It is your choice to believe what I believe or not. I just suggest faith in something...

Answer 2

There is no doubt that parents are the most optimistic people on the planet. Too often children are born "accidentally" and all we can do is provide our best effort to nurture them and hope. It's true that we're inundated with the strife in the world, but that's the "collective"world, not our individual world. We make the choice as individuals as to how wonderful or tragic our individual worlds are. I know that my world was a lonely, unforgiving, barren landscape before I chose to start a family... now it's filled with wonder, joy and optimism. I look at my child and see the possibilities the world has and as overwhelming as the news can be, who knows... maybe one of those children playing at the park will be Martin Luther King Jr. or John F. Kennedy or Albert Einstein... of course one of them may very well be Adolf Hitler, or Jeffery Dahlmer... One child, one chance to forge a better tomorrow, today the sky is blue, the birds a chirpping and the world... my world... is a bright and beautiful place... it's not always going to be that way... but today is and I am thankful there are children who posess the potential to make it even better.

Answer 3

The sky is not falling. Relax, take a breath and sit down. We have children in hopes that the world will become a better place. Remember in history class when you learned about the ancient Romans or Greeks and how they would deal with other nations and people. They were barbaric and brutal. Relatively speaking the world is becoming a better place to live. Sure there is still famine, war and death but much less than before. It just seems like there is more because of communication. Someone said I shouldn't complain about something unless I was willing to offer a solution or try to fix it. We need to take the good with the bad and have faith in a positive future. We also need to put feet to our wishes, dreams and prayers.

Answer 4

Of course this is beautiful world to live in, but it seems that you don't see the other side to it. Every person is different that's what makes the world a beautiful place to live. Yes, there are wars over religion, there are arguments over different races, as to who rules who, here are people who only like people because of their image, there are those who would rather live a lie than live the truth. But guess what, isn't that what makes the world a place to live in. The world is full of negative things, which we ee every day on the news, but you cannot expect there to be one day, where the news will have nothing but good news do you. , and yes i would bring my children, (if i have any), into this worl, just to show them that the world s not perfect

Answer 5

The world has always been a dangerous and hostile place.
I think it really would end if we did not have children. You just pray that it might get better. Certainly for most of us in the UK our lives remain untouched by wars and famine etc. Communication makes life depressing and makes the world seem a frightening environment to live in. It is not all doom and gloom and many families have happy and fulfilled lives. Yellowstone could blow tomorrow and we would all be gone! You cannot stop living because of events that may or may not occur.

Answer 6

Its human nature to want or desire to procreate when its right for each of us. I never watch the NEWS anymore because it is always a negative portrayal of human behavior. You rarely see the good side, always see the bad. I agree with you on every point you touched. The world we see is falling apart. More people need to realize this and do something about it. The problem is that when you get to a status of being able to do something about it, you are often ridiculed, or worse... killed. Think of all the important leaders of our time that DIED for their cause. Martin luther king, Kennedy, Abraham Lincoln. Great people died fighting for others.

I do my very best to accept others for who they are, and I truly believe in "to each their own". I dont understand war, or violence.

I do however, completely understand the natural desire to want children. I just think that some people confuse wanting children with wanting something else entirely. I see so many young girls getting pregnant ON PURPOSE because they thought the guy they were "in love" with would stay. Or they didnt know or werent allowed birth control. There is something wrong here when there are teenage girls who are denied birth control. Stopping teenagers and adolesence from having sex is like fixing a broken dam with a french fry. It WILL NOT work. If you deny them BC, they will get pregnant. They will have sex regardless of BC or protection.

HOWEVER, Children are also brought into this world every single day by loving parents who have good morals, understand their beliefs and have the financial means to take care of children.

PERSONALLY, I find myself in the almost financially stable group, which is why we are waiting till I graduate to have children.

Answer 7

You make some very interesting and true points. Yes this world is going down hill, and there seems to be no end to the negative activity of today's youth. But humanity must survive! We can't just stop having children because of the negative things going on in the world. The only thing we can do is hope and pray that things get better. We must try to teach our younger generation positive things, so that we will have a positive future.

Answer 8

I think you should stop watching the news which should lift your mood within days. Good news is not news in our culture. A lot of people do enjoy work and yes many people are struggling financially but they are happy (me Im one) It is a beautiful world but you have to adjust the way you view it, tune into the good things accept there are bad things but don't focus on them. I used to think it wouldnt be fair to bring a child into the world but now I think they are our only hope. Look for good and you will find it but you need to look, the bad things are always easy to see.

Answer 9

I didn't, I brought my children into a world full of incredible, amazing resourceful beings........OK not perfect, but striving to be. A world where we are beginning to accept that we are responsible for our own actions and that we have a duty to assist those countries that are struggling. I did it because I am alive and it is a fundamental urge for all forms of life to try and continue. A lot of what humanity does isn't beautiful but we occupy a very small amount of the world and some of that we create beauty in. But if the world you live in is as you describe then you are probably right not to have any children.

Blessed be, whatever choice you make.

Answer 10

One of the best ways to keep this world from getting any worse is for good people to have children. That's why. Procreation is the key to saving the human race. Just have them and then parent them well.

Parents have been saying the same thing since the '60's (at least).