I know from having had a child, and from having been a child myself, that children will copy you.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
I do want to have children, but my parents had me when they were in their forties. I'd like to copy that.
I feel very, very proud that so many people have copied me.
Cloning looks like a degrading of parenthood and a perversion of the right relation between parents and children.
A lot of things you see as a child remain with you... you spend a lot of your life trying to recapture the experience.
When you have a child, your previous life seems like someone else's. It's like living in a house and suddenly finding a room you didn't know was there, full of treasure and light.
Like the 'test tube babies' born of in vitro fertilization, cloned children need not be identifiable, much less freaks or outcasts.
I can understand when people copy people of the past and make the future their own.
There are certain realities we must speak of with our children that were not present when I was a child.
If you have children, you know you're responsible for somebody. You realize you are being imitated; your belief systems and priorities have a direct influence on these children, who are like flowers in a garden.
I think it's important to keep your own identity when you've got a baby.
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