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Re: folks who perpetuate this out of wedlock baby-having,
*lol* @ Skelly. I can so relate. Being the youngest female sibling in my family, I had the 'joy'
of babysitting everyone else's children. There's nothing like babysitting five kids, all under the age of 2, at the same time. I swore I would never have kids until I was able to handle it, or until I was filthy rich to hire a trained daycare rep 
Re the op, my argument remains the same: if there is a breakdown in the parental unit, and a subsequent breakdown on the parent-child relationship, this brokenness will lead to wrong decisions/choices in the part of the child. Personally, I want my children to look at the relationship between mother and father and say "that is what I want to emulate. Those are the choices I want to make." I'm constantly hearing arguments that such sentiments from children are not always practical in contemporary society, and while I agree <span style="font-style: italic">to some extent</span>, I feel that as parents, this is the first example of a functional relationship that children will see, so I/we better make it count! If my child(ren) can look at the relationship between mother and father and say that this is not what they <span style="font-style: italic">completely</span> desire in terms of their own personal choices/relationships/family, then something is acutely wrong in the relationship between both parents,imo.
*lol* @ Skelly. I can so relate. Being the youngest female sibling in my family, I had the 'joy'
of babysitting everyone else's children. There's nothing like babysitting five kids, all under the age of 2, at the same time. I swore I would never have kids until I was able to handle it, or until I was filthy rich to hire a trained daycare rep Re the op, my argument remains the same: if there is a breakdown in the parental unit, and a subsequent breakdown on the parent-child relationship, this brokenness will lead to wrong decisions/choices in the part of the child. Personally, I want my children to look at the relationship between mother and father and say "that is what I want to emulate. Those are the choices I want to make." I'm constantly hearing arguments that such sentiments from children are not always practical in contemporary society, and while I agree <span style="font-style: italic">to some extent</span>, I feel that as parents, this is the first example of a functional relationship that children will see, so I/we better make it count! If my child(ren) can look at the relationship between mother and father and say that this is not what they <span style="font-style: italic">completely</span> desire in terms of their own personal choices/relationships/family, then something is acutely wrong in the relationship between both parents,imo.
)</span>and now mi grown an married and have mi pickney dem...
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