Becoming a parent is always going to be a default setting. I truly believe there will always be more people who want to have children than who don't.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
You become a parent when you have a baby, no matter how you get there.
Having children really changes your priorities.
In my case, I was born to parents who were very young, and I don't think they were entirely ready to have a child. My dad was going to college and working two or three jobs at the same time, and my mum was working and going to school.
There's really no point in having children if you're not going to be home enough to father them.
No one understands the shift in priorities about having a child in your life... until you have a child in your life.
The great thing about having a child is that it keeps you very grounded. When I decided to have my daughter I was ready to have that responsibility and I made it clear to people that I work with that my job was no longer my priority. My daughter is now my priority. She comes first. Period.
For some people, becoming a parent does change them, but it never changed me.
Thousands of years of human history have shown that the ideal setting for children to grow up is with a mother and a father committed to one another, living together, and sharing the responsibility of raising their children.
So many people have so much trouble having kids.
I'm not a parent, but it seems to me the nature of parenting is contingent, full of unexpected challenges - which is one of the wonderful and amazing things about it.