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Common sense dictates: do not have children until you are in a financial and maturity position to conceive a child as a net-happiness asset, rather than a draining task. Couples who follow that advice almost always have greater capacities to love both life and their children than those who thoughtlessly or prematurely have children to "secure" the marriage, to meet the expectations of others, or other unhealthy reasons.

Romantic love and psychuous pleasures can still be achieved for couples who have children if they fully meet their responsibilities to both their children and to themselves. With children, the goal of building happiness and romantic love becomes more challenging. But if successful, a romantic relationship with the uniquely valuable experience of children can be even more rewarding than a romantic-love relationship without children.

Except to yourself and dependent children, you owe duties to no one -- including your spouse, siblings, parents -- and to nothing, including society, the government, the church, or to any other "higher" cause. The prime moral duty is to develop your own potential to achieve abiding happiness through character development and value production. Beyond the prime responsibility to be a net value producer in order to earn happiness, your only other moral duty is to support and develop your own children into honest, nonmystical, self-sufficient adults. That duty includes teaching children to objectively identify facts in full context and to live competently by rejecting all forms of mysticism, dishonesty, and neocheating.

Properly caring for and rearing children to become honest, self-sufficient adults is a moral responsibility and duty of the parents. That duty

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