I think there are a lot of younger ones like yellowlablover saying she has no plans to have children at this point in her life, but that may change, believe me at 16 I did not want children either, infact even at 22 I didn't, but by 23 my mind had changed.

Tonya your story made me so sad, this poor little boy is obviously being deprived of the love he needs, it is not your fault, he still had the right to be born and I really hope someone can adopt him, and give him the kind of life he really deserves.

All of you know how much I adore my furbabies, when I lost my Sooti, it took me a long time to get over it, but the difference is if I lost one of my children I would never ever get over it, furbabies are replacable, it does not mean I don't think about my Sooti , I still do and I still cry for him sometimes, but Lexie has indeed helped me through it and to come to terms with it, a child is not something you can just pick up at the local pet store, if you get my drift, when you have carried a baby for 9mths , given birth, and all the love you have to that child, nothing in the world can replace that, not even another child. Just MO.

To Lisalee, just briefly, I am not here to attack you , I don't have an issue with you, but other's do, I don't think you set out to purposely insult people on the board, but unfortunately you did, so maybe an apology might be in order, up to you of course, there have been some not so nice people on PT, but everyone I know is very nice, and Willie is no exception, she is one of the nicest people I know, and I have been here over a year now., you hit a raw nerve with some people that is all, maybe time to make some peace.

Other than that I have enjoyed reading everyone's response's, motherhood is not for everyone, and sometimes because I have enjoyed being a mother so much, I just want everyone else to experience that joy, but I know that is not the case, and to other's it is not what they want from their lives, maybe just as well, as we would be even more over-populated world than present.

Wolfchan your idea of fostering really suprised me, in a very nice way, that is such a great thing to think of doing, it is not something I could do, I Just don't have it in me, to have a child for a while and not with me forever, it takes a very special kind of person to beable to foster, and maybe you are that person.
Cheers everyone.