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If you have to have a driving licence to drive a car, how much more important is it to have a parenting licence to become a parent? The skills required are several orders of magnitude greater, and the consequences for getting it wrong so much more serious.
Mind you it is hard for me not to take a little vicarious pleasure as he struggles with parenthood. I find the duties of grandparenthood a breeze by comparison. I think some kids are genetically predisposed to force their parents to develop great leadership skills, and he is coming along nicely... Index of Frank's Diaries
Think of all those kings who couldn't sire a son and heir. They were all pussies, especially Henry VIII who blamed his wives.
(Disclaimer: IANAN-BL but I'm not blaming anyone). Things are going to slide, slide in all directions Won't be nothing Nothing you can measure anymore L. Cohen
Anyway, what are you doing on the profoundly unnatural internet, instead of being out clubbing mammoths, with the rest of the rightwing leadership wannabes? It is rightly acknowledged that people of faith have no monopoly of virtue - Queen Elizabeth II
Returning to the subject:
"Man's nature, so to speak, is a perpetual factory of idols." (John Calvin, 1559)
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