Hi World,

Now before you jump to the conclusion of me being selfish and not wanting to have or raise a baby, read this entire article.

First of all, I've always wanted to have a family and raise kids. But, recently I have decided that I would rather adopt a child. Do you know how many kids there are in the world that don't have homes or are in foster care? Far too many, and most people don't want to foster or even adopt a child because they feel that it isn't their problem because it wasn't them that lost their child. The truth, however, is that it is everyone's problem because the state are the ones that have to support all of these foster children.

I'm not saying that you have to adopt or foster a child if that's not what you want to do. But that is what I want to do. I want to help these children have a home and have someone that they will come home to every day and that will be a consistent person in their lives.

The second reason I don't want to increase the world population is that recently some things that have been going on in the world that make me feel like we are moving backward in terms of equality rather than forward. I don't want to bring children into a world where we are moving backward instead of forward.

So my decision at twenty years old is that I won't be adding to the population of the world. Instead, I will foster and adopt children. I will change the world in another way and it won't be by having a kid of my own it will be by giving children that don't have a home, a home.

So I'm not being selfish by saying that I'm not having a baby of my own.

So, World, go ahead and judge me however you want to.

From, The Girl Who Won't Be Adding To The World's Population