Merle Bombardieri
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first heard Jul 2026
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I can give them the intellectual framework, etc.
But I don't know what our world is going to be like, you know, in 20 years or 30 years or 200 years.
It's very confusing.
Some people decide to be child-free say, I'm going to use my time that I would be putting into children to really work on environmental change.
Parents, you might think, oh, if they're going to decide to have a child, they're just going to put their head in the sand.
But no, it's how do we raise our children so that they appreciate the planet and help solve the problem?
We would never encourage anyone who is terrified of that to push themselves over the edge and say yes to parenthood.
And they deserve our respect.
We shouldn't say, oh, you're cowards because you didn't go ahead.
Everybody's needs and feelings are different, and they have a right to say no to parenthood, even if in many ways they'd like to be a parent.
They can make their own choice, and we need to respect that.
Well, what I hear when I'm listening to our own clients is we want to be parents enough that even though we hope this doesn't happen, we still think it would be worth it.
Not everybody decides that, but a lot of people do.
One example I'll give is people who have grown up with a sibling who was very sick or had a disability.
where a lot of the family resources, the parents' attention, time, money went into the other child.
For understandable reasons, they are more terrified of having a child that might be very difficult to raise and a child that might suffer.
So for them to make the decision to have a child is much, much more difficult.
And so for people who are ambivalent about that, sometimes the best thing to do is to decide not to have a child.
So there's the myth of the lonely only child, but actually only children are voted most popular in their class.
They're very mentally healthy.
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