Most people consider that creating their own family is one of their goals in life. On average, the basic plan for an individual in today's society is: Graduate from high school, attempt to achieve a good career, have a family, and retire. In fact, once you have children you life will begin to revolve around these, their education, in other words child caring will become a big part of your life.
In recent years we have seen the idea of adopting. This idea has grown over the years and is has become more common among us. We no longer make it a big deal, and are more open to it. I must say that I have shared with some people over the years that have a clear view of how they want to create their family. As if to say, they may say "I want so and so amount of children" or "I want to adopt; I want to have children of my own".
This is the reason why I found this chapter quite interesting. Although I don't even know if I want to have children in the future. I think I know that I want to adopt in the future. The reason for this, is I believe that instead of being selfish and bearing and caring for a child that will have everything, there are other children out there that need more help. That need that same love you wish to give your own child. Instead of contributing to the over population of the earth, why not reduce it, or at least try to. But I have also heard that by not having children and passing on my genes, I am being selfish to the gene pool.
Whether you look at the pros and cons, the point that Dawkins makes about child bearing and child caring in this chapter was quite interesting to me. And it left me with other ideas I shall take in mind in the future.
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