Overpopulation

[francesb1988]

Dear mums or mums to be,

If you are having doubts over having a child -
please consider the fact that in a few months time we will
have passed the 7 billion (!!!) marker.

Planet earth is being choked by our careless reproduction.

If you must have children, why not skip the horrible pregnancy thing,

and put that energy into adopting a child. At least in our developed, equal societies women can actually choose to not breed.

A while ago i'd become pregnant by accident for about a month and got an abortion straight away. ( i dont want my own children)
Pregnancy was in my humble opinion an absolute nightmare, i can not fathom how anyone would want to go through nine months of feeling like a puke bucket if there are millions of children up for adoption.

You could give those children a real chance instead of selfishly deciding for a baby, just so it can look like you.

Here's the article in the guardian about overpopulation.

www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2011/jul/18/population-7-billion-planet

Thanks for your attention.

I can't believe someone who has never been pregnant for a full 9+ months can actually believe they can comment on how it feels to be pregnant! Absolutely wonderful is how it feels, even when you feel like complete and utter shit, it still feels wonderful.

And while yes the over population of the world does need to be addressed, you post OP, is crap and badly thought out and you'd be much better off not posting such rubbish.

Offensive post OP, wondering if you're going to be as forthright in your views with your adoption agency...maybe not

It has been discussed on here, a few times; there was a memorable occasion a long while back where someone posted this same idea in the larger famillies section which was clearly daft, as post birth termination is generally frowned upon!

There has also been discussion around the point that the happiest way to address this issue is by making cointracetion freely vailablwe where it is not- rather than deny people the family they want, first help them not have children they would not choose to conceive.

And there is a massive converse issue here wrt to aging population / costs that means the country would severely struggle if the working population was restricted/

I'd much rather give my ten pennies to charities focussing on global family planning (I think it may have been riven that suggested there was evidence that educating women results in smaller family sizes so tackle that as a priority) than make bizarre comments about termination in the manner of the OP.

It's also true that a significant issue wrt to population increase in the UK is with older people; rather than telling otehr people not to make decisions they wish wrt family why not give serious consideration (as I have and mentioned earlier) to ways of minimising your own 'resource take'?