Welcome to Ghost of a Podcast. I'm your host Jessica Lignato. I'm an astrologer, psychic

medium, and animal communicator, and I'm going to give you your weekly horoscope and no

bullshit mystical advice for living your very best life.

Hello my dears, and welcome back to Ghost of a Podcast. This week I have a question,

I don't know, maybe it's going to be controversial. I don't know. It's hard for me to tell what

controversial is. It goes like this, is parenthood morally right? And it comes from A, she says,

I've always seen myself being a mother. I got married last August and my husband and I are talking

about starting to try for a baby in the next few months. Now that it's becoming more tangible,

I'm starting to worry about creating a life. Is it selfish to bring a child into the world as it is

right now? Will we be able to guide and protect them from the political upheavals, climate change

crisis, social media pressures, etc. And then what she does is she goes ahead and shares her

birth information and her partner's birth information. But I actually think it's important for me to

address this question in a larger way because I do get asked many versions of it pretty frequently. Should I have a

child right now? Is it right to have a child right now? Is it wrong to have a child right now? And I

think there's several layers to the question, right? The first one is the part where A is asking me if

it's selfish to have a child. And I think it's important that I acknowledge that some people would

say it is selfish to not have a child. Now I'm not going to say those people are wrong or right,

I certainly don't agree with them, but it's not me trying to have a child. You know what I mean?

The dictionary definition of selfish is important for me to name here because it is, it means

lots of things. It means concerned excessively with yourself, caring only for yourself,

but it also means being influenced chiefly by motives of personal or private pleasure or

advantage. From that last definition, I would say the selfish for most people to have children

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