childless couple?

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There is nothing sadder than a childless couple. It breaks your heart to see them stretched out, relaxing around a swimming pool in Florida or California, suntanned and miserable on the deck of a boat, trotting off to enjoy Europe like lonesome fools—with money to spend, time to enjoy themselves and nothing to worry about. Childless couples become so selfish and wrapped up in their own concerns, you can’t help but feel sorry for them. Everyone should have children. No one should be allowed to escape the wonderful experiences attached to each stage in the development of the young. The happy memories of those early years – saturated mattresses, waiting for sitters who don’t show up, midnight asthma attacks, rushing to the hospital emergency room to get the kid’s head stitched up. Children are worth every moment of anxiety, every sacrifice. You knew it the first time you took your son hunting. He didn’t mean to shoot you in the leg. Remember how he cried? How sorry he was? How disappointed you weren’t a deer? These are the memories a man treasures forever.