Key points

It’s not a child’s job to bring love into an otherwise lonely life.

Not all children are charming. Remember that kid in second grade?

You can change a life without having to give birth to one.

I should start by saying that while I have no children of my own, I do have stepchildren who are at that adorable age when they're both attorneys. They're so cute at this stage, what with their own homes and retirement -planning.

My stepchildren don't have kids, either. The hand-knit booties in our family tend to run towards XXL.

As a young woman, oddly enough, I never doubted that I would have children. Women got married, had children, grew old, and then were cheerfully cherished by those children. That was the script I saw played in the domestic theaters, sometimes in real life b

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