filled with orphanages and foster homes full of unwanted children--having 17 kids seems INCREDIBLY selfish to me
2007-08-03 05:19:56 · 35 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
it's 100% selfishness on the mothers part for having so many children and wanting more. How can she ever spend quality time with each of them? Every child deserves a decent birthday and christmas gift - how can she give to each of them? SHE CAN'T!! instead the citizens of her town will pay for gifts and clothes and help supply her needs to meet the childrens. She needs to get a job like the rest of society and have a child based on her availability and financial ability to take care of those children. the children should have been taken away from her, one by one, and put up for adoption and she should foot the bill for their temporary foster care. Cut her tubes and put her to work.
2007-08-03 05:26:11 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 3⤊ 1⤋
Not just selfish but irresponsible and here is why. As you have stated the world is overpopulated and NO people there are parts on this world that are uninhabitable. I understand the need and wanting to have a child but a person should have a child if they can afford to raise that child. By having more than what one can afford to take car of that child is not going to have the opportunity as other children would.
Sadly we can not have law that dictates how many children a person can have, so it is up to them to make use of some common sense when wanting to have a child
2007-08-03 05:25:28 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 1⤋
I have to agree with you, there are so many children that are in homes, with no one to care about them. I am not saying that you shouldn't have your own children, but if you want that many, why not give a home to a child that doesn't have one. Or even foster them if you have the room and the finances.
These kids need love to!!!
2007-08-03 07:24:44 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Having children in an overpopulated world has always seemed selfish to me. While I want children of my own (and yes, I admit this is selfish), I would never has as many as that. And if I couldn't have children, I would adopt them, rather than trying to force my body to produce something unnaturally.
2007-08-03 05:28:23 · answer #4 · answered by Kharm 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Not so long as you love and provide for them.
Consider that the entire population of the world could fit in the state of Alaska. With this in mind it is greed and other human attributes that your points are truly based on. If someone can take care of 17 children, then let them at it. I am agnostic and am not resigned to any faith. I maintain an open and logical view of the world around us and have noted that most all "evil" out there is based off of the human need for superiority. It is greed and the hunger for power that leave many homeless, starving, orphaned, and destitute. It is not a religious thing, just a moral thing.
2007-08-03 05:26:55 · answer #5 · answered by Jeremie I 4 · 0⤊ 3⤋
I cannot imagine having that many children, in the school districts my children have attended the maximum amount per class was 21 children. These people have 17 and want more.
Kids need time and attention one on one from each parent, can a family that size do that.
2007-08-03 05:24:08 · answer #6 · answered by dustystar 4 · 6⤊ 2⤋
Don't even start this, because you will not win. Having as many kids as you want, is your decision, who knows what those kids will grow up to be or do. They'll all turn out fine, I'm sure of it, the mother sounded very intelligent and hard-working to handle that many children. I'd like to see you get all of her work done in a day and still have the energy to smile happily in a picture for the news like that. It's not as sickening as people are making it seem on here. People disregarding other people's families and lives so heavily--that's sickens me.
2007-08-03 05:25:04 · answer #7 · answered by * 4 · 1⤊ 3⤋
Well it is obviously menat to be!! As long aso someone is able to provide for themselves and their children they why put a limit on how many children one is allowed to have?!?! They arer healthy adults that are able to have children....so why adopt when they are able to produce something that is truly theirs? It is not the childrens fault (those that are in foster homes) but the parents of those who had children who werent able to raise them.....I wish that if anything they put an age restriction on wh ocan have kids and who cant....but that will never happen so live your life for you and dont worry about anyone else!!
2007-08-03 05:24:59 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 2⤋
When God said "go forth and multiply" it was said when the world was new and there weren't all that many people. Now that we have a fully populated world, we really should slow down a bit and limit the number of children we produce. Selfish isn't really the right word......I think Irresponsible fits it better.
2007-08-03 05:25:26 · answer #9 · answered by kj 7 · 5⤊ 2⤋
Your understanding of the bible is undoubtedly limited. Why bother answering a question from a person who can only think with a limited perspective? That would just be selfishly bestowing wisdom in a field where it cannot grow Since I prefer not to be selfish in this aspect.
No wisdom for you. Next! (*)
(*)yes, that's a Jerry Seinfeld soup Nazi reference, I admit it.
2007-08-03 05:27:06 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 2⤋