Mecha, as usual, takes my basic opinion and then runs with it to the extreme, but what he says right above my comment here is similar to my thoughts on the subject. If a person is sure they can support a horde of children, emotionally, financially, and so-on-ally, then, well... why not adopt? Why not take a child from the impersonal, the-staff-is-legally-forbidden-to-give-hugs world of foster care and residential homes, and give THEM the love and caring that you have?

And of course my complaint is not with people who have a bunch of kids AND ARE GOOD PARENTS; I'm still not sure it's entirely responsible to add to the population that much, but I'm not going to start picketing or anything. My problem is with the type of people who leave eleven-year-old Jimmy-Bob in charge of his half-dozen little brothers and sisters, because it's Friday evening and a trip to the bar is in order. These are the ones that need an application of the beatstick.