It's a medical procedure.
Choosing Baby Gender
The joys of genetic engineering.
You can pick your babies gender, hair color, eye color, etc.
I think that it's inhumane. I'm completely against it. D:
Well, not to sound like a child-molester, but I love kids. [Even though I kind of still am one.]
I volunteer at my local YMCA Day Camp every summer. I'm pretty much the only one who goes their by choice - the kids' parents make them go, some of the other volunteers [CITs] are forced to go by their 'rentals, and the counselors are getting paid - their summer job. It's my home there. I love being with the kids, teaching them, working with them, and seeing them develop and improve. I get so attached to all of them - the younger ones like my siblings, and some of the ones that are only a few years younger than me I become close friends with.
I know for sure that I want to go into a child-based career. I always have. I'm pretty set on being a teacher - either a middle school teacher, or a musical education teacher.
So it makes sense that I want to have kids someday. :]
I want to have 3 - 4 of them.
I want to get married young. Though I know neither of my parents would support that, it's MY life, and not there's.
I want to have a family. I want to have a husband. I want a nice little house.
Teacher's are making better salaries these days than a few decades ago - $40k - $60k per year. And they get off holidays and the summer - so I'd get to spend plenty of time with my kids.
Hopefully my husband will have a good-paying job though. ^_^
Onto childbirth though... well, I took Child Development 1 first semester of this year. We went deep into sexual education and prenatal development. Dear Jesus, I am TERRIFIED of giving birth now. We watched fertilization happen, from inside a woman's fallopian tube [some woman volunteered to put a camera in there and tape when her and her husband 'did it.]
And then we watched a video of a woman giving birth - COMPLETELY uncencored. The majority of the video was shot from between her legs. So you got to see how far the vagina stretches when the baby's head is pushed out, and how long it took, and the screaming, and the contractions, and... words can't even begin to describe. It was probably the most frightening thing I've ever seen in my entire life.
So... hopefully in the next 10 years, I'm physically, mentally, and emotionally ready to go through the birthing process.
I think I can handle raising kids though. -knock on wood-