9. Did you ever want to have children?

Until the age of 23 or 24, I had every intention of getting married and having several kids, but being six and eight years older than my brother and sister respectively (older children often help their parents raise younger siblings), baby-sitting for neighbors; being a camp counselor; teaching, and having had relationships with several single mothers made it clear to me that, even though I truly like children, I wasn't really parent material.

If I had wanted children, I would have adopted (instead of adding to the planet's overpopulation problem), and I would have wanted my children to turn out just like my nieces and nephews, who are all gentle, athletic, kind, musical, thoughtful, funny, respectful, obedient, loving, and everything else good parents want their children to be.

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(3 AUG 06)