Procreation

Why do we as humans feel the need to and have children? Maybe it's because since birth, we have grown up in a society that insists that we procreate before it's too late. Many even condemn the fact that certain people choose not to participate in this ritual. It's ingrained in our heads that it's the life we MUST choose, if it's really even a choice at all.

But why? There is a world population of close to 7 billion and there is around 127,000 children up for adoption
each year in the U.S. alone.

Maybe I'm the typical selfish human being, but I barely have enough to support myself. I know the same to be true about many of my peers as well. So, based on that and on how many families I see day in and day out, complaining how they don't sleep anymore, or how they don't have money to pay bills, or when they pull out food stamps and the reciepts from cashing in their welfare checks, I wonder, "Why do we do this to ourselves?"

And now, with the way the economy is in the U.S., people are trying harder to get pregnant. Recently, a group of 17 teenagers in Boston made a pregnancy pact, one of whom was so desperate that she had unprotected sex with a homeless man in hopes that she would get pregnant. She did.

Does this scream insanity to anyone else but me?

If you're pro-life, that's fine. Adopt instead of fulfilling the need to continue your own bloodline, because really who's more selfish: me for wanting to take care of myself first or you for caring too much about family pride to adopt a child born of another? If you're pro-choice, don't use abortion as a form of birth control. That's all I ask. Don't be ignorant about sex. Take care of your body. Get on the pill. Use condoms. And we ask to spay and neuter our pets to keep the animal population down, so tell me why we don't ask the same for humans.

Use your head.