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Originally Posted by Tea Supremacist
Ouch! That's a big generalisation! To some extent I can see your point. But on the other hand, my sister and her husband have 4 children through choice and live off of the veg in their garden, the eggs from their chickens and ducks and all their bread, pasta etc is all homemade - it works out a lot cheaper to live like this (for them) and I think it's pretty good for the kids too. Don't get me wrong, they do a basic supermarket shop, buy decent clothes for the kids and all that jazz but their lifestyle coupled with the amount of children they have isn't what I'd see as being selfish. Added to that is the statistics showing more women (albeit not a fast increase, but an increase nonetheless) foregoing families in favour of careers or through choice. I'd say the decision (or stupidity) to have a family that you can't provide for and ending up willingly sponging off of the system for years is selfish.
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Ditto this! I think it's definitely a case of poor judgement versus anything else. I live in Ireland, and many people from the generation before mine came from families of up to six or seven children. Why? Because Catholicism was rampant. People believed they would go to hell if they had small families. Sound stupid? To me it does, but when one is raised in that kind of hell-fearing environment from birth, it's all too easy to judge. As others have said, it's everything to do with misinformation/stupidity and little to do with selfishness or egoism, in most cases.
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