Sunday, November 12, 2006

Why do Parents Become Parents?

What a terrible topic for our Yaya's to talk about behind us! But who can blame them? After all, our YAYA or anyone in the care of our young children including teachers who have been in the business long enough will question "Why some parents even had that child or children on the first place?"

Many reasons could be the following:

1. Accidental because after a night of bliss, a baby is on the way.

2. A couple is in wedlock, and the child just came...sort of planned...and then the second came and the third....

3. Some born out of strong social, religous pressure...children become status symbols

4. Some people have them because their spouse wants one, and to save the marriage, the child
must come, welcomed and wanted by both, or not.

5. Some singles elect to have a child either by adoption or procreation via a partner or a test tube donor. They may not necessarily be married but feel they have the love, desire, and means to provide the child.

6. Some have them to meet their own needs in a pathological way...to have something that no one can take away from them, and that they can control.

7. Some couples are on their second marriages and either one or both have children from previous marriage and decide to have a child together

8. Matured, goal-oriented married couple who worked and planned for the right time when they are secure as a couple, financially and emotionally ready to either procreate or adopt a child. What a joy these parents are to their family and friends and a blessing to their children!

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