The Desire of Parents I

After thinking about relationships of marriage among society, I began to consider the desire for children in life. Of course the life of not every child is expected, however when they are expected or initially intended upon it is with some motive or desire that they are. Because I am a teenager- still a dependent and not a parent myself, I offer the lesser of the two positions for this perspective and although I look from the outside in, I am not under the suasion of bias on the investigation of why these desires may be.

When we are little, we just know that our parents love us. It is as we grow and have experiences where we get so frustrated and the only issue in the world is the one at the present moment that we wonder why we are there. When we are little, we don’t realize that our parents wanted us to have life because they wanted to experience the joy we would bring. God told us that children are precious gifts and that they ought to bring joy. He told the people of Israel to go and multiply and that those who rose up his children on earth would be specially honored for being parents. Indeed we are sinful people and it is in the sin that we reproduce by sexual desire, although that too was given us by God to be enjoyed between a husband and wife.

It is a common rule that children come of the love between two- which is part of the desire for children, however it could still be out of intention and out of love that a child be produced of selfishness. Ironically, as I sat down to write this, my point in doing so was affirmed in a sort of way by the moral on the story called “My Sister’s Keeper”. Based on a true story, the movie showed the miserable struggle of a young woman with cancer. When she was diagnosed with cancer as a toddler, her parents genetically selected a sister that could be born to help preserve the life of their first daughter. The younger sister loved her elder and endured pain of her own in order to provide the blood and marrow for her sister. When the cancerous girl no longer wants to fight her disease, she asks her sister to sue their parents for the right to her own body, for it was the mother who clung to her daughter’s life and not herself. It would be by law that the girl could finally have her will of death over the suffering in the disease after sixteen years of her mother’s wish for her life despite disease.