[LMB] Sort of OT: Parenting roles

[Azalais Aranxta]

On Tue, 5 Jun 2007, Elizabeth Holden wrote:

> Cf. the whole issue of the infants-of-rape in the replicators
> at the end of "Shards".  It always made me uneasy that these
> unwanted creatures were rejected not just by their mothers but
> their mothers' culture.

I really wonder why they weren't aborted.  It seems a curious
expenditure of resources in a post-war rebuilding type situation.
I certainly wouldn't want to carry a fetus or raise the resulting
baby that had been conceived that way and I simply wouldn't.  I
am glad their unhappy egg-donors did not have to, and that their
culture did not force them to.  I cannot think that many of their
sperm donors made brilliant parents either.  How unfortunate all
around.  :/

The whole thing strikes me as smelling of "children as punishment
for sex" and in this case rape.  Which I have always found kind
of a repugnant attitude, mostly because I wouldn't want to BE
someone's punishment, thanks.

~malfoy

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