Read an article yesterday on the increasing abortion rate in BEirut and the Middle East: http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/world/5862119.html

When will we be able to face that fact that children are very frequently unpleasant little animals, and faced with the idea of being caged with them for 18-plus years is an increasingly terrifying idea to lots and lots of people around the world.

Given, too, that some adults seem to view children as their own toys to abuse, rape and torture, it seems to me that we are really looking at a situation that desperately needs a new approach.

Such as government-sponsored creches where brood mare women are paid for their services in bearing the fetus for the required amount of time, and then the children are raised and educated in nice sterile non-abusive situations until they are mature enough to go forth and assume the mantle of taxation and making a living for themselves.

I suppose this is pie in the sky because the government has never been good at ANYthing, but it seems to me that if individual people are declining the responsiblity of reproducing themselves, then we either have to get used to the idea of doing with fewer bodies (wouldn’t that be a Good Thing for the whole global warming debate?), or producing new and more bodies a different way.