It's Friday, May 24, 2024. I'm Albert Molar and this is the briefing. A daily analysis of news and events from a Christian worldview.

Well, sometimes you see something happen in the media and you all of a sudden think,

you know, this needs to be considered.

It's something that just comes by as a headline and then you reflect

upon the fact, no, there's more to it here than just a headline. I want to make

reference to an article that recently appeared at the site of Business Insider

and it's one of those things that caught my attention because the at the site of Business Insider.

And it's one of those things that caught my attention because the headline came to mind

and I just thought, you know, maybe we better go there.

Here's the headline, I'm 72 and don't have any biological kids, I don regret it." Well all right let's look at this

a little bit further.

Louisa Rogers has written the piece. She tells us quote back in 1978 when my husband and I got

married he was 36 I was 27 at the time she writes I thought I might want to have kids and Barry thought he probably didn't he already had eight year old twin daughters and thought that might be enough for him but neither of us was sure she

says the next 10 years quote I really thought about it but she then goes on to say

that there were hints that quote becoming a mom wasn't in my future.

She says, quote, in childhood I fantasized about being a writer and about visiting my family

from exotic places, both of which came to pass, but never about being a mother.

During college, I told my mother that I worried that I wouldn't make a good parent because I didn't enjoy children much.

Other than babysitting, I never hung out with kids or gravitated to them.

I was not what you call a natural mother."

End quote.

She's convinced me of that.

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