The article discusses the challenges of parenting in the West, particularly in times of political and environmental crises. The author reflects on a conversation with a mother expressing concern over the future and the world their children are growing up in. It explores how raising children amidst such uncertainty can feel reckless, yet it also highlights the importance of viewing it as an act of hope and commitment to a better future. Parenting is portrayed as a means of instilling progressive values and a way of impacting societal change, emphasizing its ongoing importance in an unstable world.
It makes you wonder, what kind of world did we bring our kids into?
The decision to have children can feel reckless, or worse, like an act of denial, yet parenting can also be a stubborn act of hope.
Raising children offers a crash course in progressive values; it's a way of tying ourselves to the future we wish to see.
Too often, we forget to convey why raising kids is still worthwhile amid the overwhelming crises facing our society.
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