On having children (maybe good for women only readers)
Hmmm... don't really know how to begin, blogging about something so personal. I'm 33 years old and I never imagined myself not having children. Like most young women I would picture myself, as an adult, with kids. I never questioned it much, just took it for granted that I would have kids one day. I've always adored children and have always gotten along well with kids, from infancy to teenagers- I truly enjoy young people. Now, when really recollecting, during my college years my thinking concerning child-bearing did temporarily change. I remember talking with one of my high school friends by phone when I was around 23, at the time she was pregnant with her 2nd or 3rd child. We talked about kids and I said something like, "You don't feel strange having kids knowing there are more than 15,000 kids dying from hunger-related issues every single day in this world?" I likely also mentioned the fact that there are around 6 billion people occupying the world,...