Is it normal that i feel like this?

You must really dislike the duggers, they're popping kids out left and right and what's even better is that there are more families like theirs... Also on that note there needs to be more done for the animals that are at risk for extinction.

Definitely agree with adoption, there are so many kids without parents. Safe sex needs to be taught in school, the abstinence only method is ridiculous, teenagers are bound to have sex at some point they should be taught safe practices to avoid pregnancy and stds.

It's not just a religious issue, its a class issue. Lower class families without the resources or knowledge to prevent pregnancy, so financially they can't support their children, and more and more children are born into poverty and the cycle keeps going on and on. Education is the only answer, start at the core of the problem, create opportunities for lower class children to get an education and to better themselves and then be able to financially support themselves. College needs to be offered at a reasonable price for more people to get ahead and for real progress to happen. We need to have a world of thinkers, educators, creators, and we do but they can't get through the door to explore those ideas. Educated and financially stable families produce less children that's a statistical fact.

Although I can't disagree that the world is highly overpopulated, I feel I must state that its everyone's right to have a child of their own if they choose to, and they shouldn't be guilt tripped into adopting someone else's child because some irresponsible teenager got pregnant and gave her baby up or because of all the morons in africa who multiply like rabbits and then die of AIDS and leave their kids destitute and hungry and homeless, and no, that's not even a stereotype. I live in South Africa and that is exactly what causes thousands of kids to be without parents. I do however believe that there should be a limit to how many kids one can legally have. One or two per couple ( not one or two per slutty teenage girl who doesn't have a man to help support the kids) seems more than enough to me, and sterilization should be mandatory after the first or second child. I believe we can control over population without forcing couples to adopt children that should not be anyone else's responsibility but the two people who conceived the child. I want a child one day because I want to bring somebody into the world that is a part of me and my significant other. I don't feel as if I would love an adopted child less, but I would prefer having a kid that is biologically made up of both myself and my partner.

What?

Let me get this straight, you claim that most of our genetics are "average", yet you want anybody who is considering having their own kids, who have been planning this and have an income to support a family and didn't just have sex and make a mistake to adopt children who are the offspring of people with lower than average genetic parents? In other words, you want to give the stupid population a free pass to reproduce while the average and above average adopt those peoples' children? Excuse me, but who died and made you in charge of reproductive rights and population control? Let me ask you something, and be honest, how many children have you adopted? If you have ever adopted or even considered adoption, you will know how expensive adoption is. I'm sure you also know about all of the economic hardships so many people are facing these days. If nobody had any babies anymore, do you realize how much more expensive adoption would be? Do you realize how corrupt adoption agencies (including foster care) are? At $30,000 to $50,000 per child and with the birth mother getting nothing, where do you think that money goes? If you want to tell people to stop reproducing, go to the welfare offices, go to third world countries like India and tell them to stop reproducing. Don't tell the married couple who has 1-2 kids to not have babies. As for what the reason is for couples to not adopt and have their own children instead, that is none of your damn business. If somebody does not want to adopt because they cant love somebody else's biological child, then don't you think its better that they recognize that instead of actually adopting a child and making it's life hell?

I also thought I might add that I agree with your post, except the part where adoption should be done instead of having one's own child. I think the pressure society puts on people to reproduce is ridiculous and unfair. I'm not sure how it works overseas, but here in SA you won't find a surgeon who will steralize a woman under the age of about 35, even if she and her husband both agree they have completed their family, just because she might change her mind. I think the fact that they actually promote the idea of having several children, is sick. I plan of having a child before the age of 30, and if I decide to have two, the fact remains I will be done with that shit before the age of 30. I want surgical steralization after my first or second child but I was highly pissed off when I learned I probably won't find a surgeon who will do it for me.