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The End of Kids
Way back in the olden days my parents had three lovely little daughters. They figured they were done having kids, but they wanted a boy and adoption was “in” at that time so they adopted a boy from India. This rounded out the family nicely and Dad got “fixed.” Eight years later they had changed their minds. There were a number of reasons for this, some religious, some just biological, but Dad got “unfixed” and they started a second family.
I was 11. This provided me with a good view of what it takes to take care of babies. Our church at the time had only one other family with four kids. Four was a lot. Three was much better, four was just excessive. While picking up my baby sister from the nursery one day, the pianist commented disapprovingly to me that my parents had too many kids and they needed to stop. As the second-born, I suppose I would have been spared but I was so shocked that I said nothing and just walked away.
China’s oppressive one-child policy has at long last been repealed. Sadly, it was replaced with an only slightly less oppressive two-child policy. Hopes that China’s leaders have finally realized the blatantly evil nature of such decrees are, of course, wishful thinking. The