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454. Well said. And even more importantly, children are often not a choice like a pet who can be pawned

off to a shelter, or a craigslist add respondent when the going gets tough. Once they are her, they are necessarily now and going forward, and intimate part of our lives. We can't say, well, i don't have time for a child anymore. No, we have to make due and make a go of it as a family. And if that means everyone gets a little less food at the table or that the kids need to learn earlier than optimal to look after themselves, it's a risk we need to take and a reality we have to live with.

No, I am not impressed with the OP. Not at all. It is cold and calloused toward someone who in all likelihood is doing the best she can with the tools she has available.

Potentially breaking up a family because something might not be ideal or even acceptable to our bourgeois sensibilities is the ultimate in cruelty and inhumanity.