This is just to say

[rivka]

I'm not doing very well.

I'm crying at work.

Thoughts of miscarriage keep crossing my mind. Not as in, wanting to have one, but as in, how could the baby possibly live through this?

I know that's crazy.

But when the majority of my fellow Americans have given their stamp of approval to the architects of Abu Ghraib, where can I find hope? How can I be a parent in this world?

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I know I'm Canadian, but

[msagara.livejournal.com]

I'm not doing very well.

I'm crying at work.

Me too. And I'm not American. And I'd go into it at length -- I'm just shy of doing so on my LJ -- but I'd be preaching to the choir, or telling them something they already knew and don't need more of right now.

Thoughts of miscarriage keep crossing my mind. Not as in, wanting to have one, but as in, how could the baby possibly live through this?

I know that's crazy.

But when the majority of my fellow Americans have given their stamp of approval to the architects of Abu Ghraib, where can I find hope? How can I be a parent in this world?

It's precisely because you can be a sane and rational person in this world, that you care enough -- have continued to care enough -- to be active, to try to effect change, to try to make things better for people that you can be a parent in this world.

Because it's the future generation in which, well, the future lies. And if the sane, reasonable and responsible people aren't having children, aren't raising them -- then who is? You aren't passing on just genetic material; you're passing on your way of thought and life, the things that occur day to day beneath the surface of words, the sum total of everything that was passed on to you by your family, friends and experiences.

No, that's not all your child will be - but it's the foundation on which they'll build the rest.

How can you not be a parent? Without parents like you, what's left?

Ummm. imho.