In entry 66, I derived the word brat from BRood And peT, and in this sense I am bratfree. That means my personal choice not to be a caretaker for any being, that requires being fed, sheltered and cleaned without the availability of the reward and benefit of mature and intellectual communication. And I am looking for a bratfree mindmate. Of course, my refusal to be a caretaker of brats is no refusal to care for a mindmate, when he gets sick and frail.
But I am indifferent to other people's children. They neither disturb nor attract me. They are just a part of the social environment. As a consequence of the overpopulation of the globe, people should breed as little as possible.
I am on some childfree forums, and some people there are militantly against children, and resent, that their taxes are used for the upbringing of children. The latter is a dangerous attitude. Breeders supply society with potential time bombs. Without prevention, later on the juvenile delinquents and lifelong criminals could rob, mug, break in and even kill. I could be the victim, as anybody else could be too.
Once a breeder has done, what he could not refrain from, the society should do its best to make sure, that the raw material, called baby, will be converted into a valuable member of society, who will never do harm to others and take care of himself without taking advantage of others.
It is much better to invest the tax money as early as possible into providing kindergarten facilities, good schools, social workers, education advice, rather then spending it later on prisons, correction institutions and a huge police force.
