Thanks to scientific advances in birth control and social advances in planning parenthood, the last 50 years unlike any 50 years before them were characterized by the births of an inordinate number of wanted children and an inordinate diminution in the number of births of unwanted children.
When I say unwanted I don't mean unloved. I mean that parents who are often happy with and able to reasonably raise a couple of children are often unhappy with more children than they are not able to reasonably raise. By reasonably raise, I mean having the intellectual, emotional and physical ability to love and care for children.
Parents want and need to have happy relationships with their children. These happy relationships are often compromised by the stresses and strains of trying to raise more children than they reasonably can.
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With the help of new birth control methods and new attitudes, parents over the past 50 years have been having and caring for increasingly happier children in increasingly happier environments. This has led to both happier parents and happier children and the relationships between them have grown increasingly more positive and healthy.
Underneath the current political changes is a growing and flowing of positive and healthy attitudes and actions. Barring all the interferences that can thwart the best laid plans of women and men, tomorrow's world looks better and brighter, everywhere in every way.
Human beings are happier when they bring new lives into a world where those lives can be hopeful and happy, satisfying and rewarding.
The world is a better place when we understand and appreciate that living is more important than life.