Vaunted Children Unwanted

Family Travel Gets Complicated Without a Covid Vaccine for Kids

https://www.nytimes.com/2021/03/30/travel/children-family-vaccines.html

On this Happy Easter day it will be churlish indeed to growl most children are not wanted from conception to the grave, are accidental, daresay existential and consequential, brutally endured as a gut punch.

Those of the wealthy and egocentric are assigned to nannies, aunties, distant nurseries and academies, if not disowned and disinherited in favor of paramours and at the behest of current love-ins, orphaned by older siblings yearning for the biggest cut of family fortune as oldest, top of the line, legitimate under some loosely regulated country willing to sell a blue-chip birth certificate to the real deal or illegitimate imposter claiming parentage of blithering vacationers lolling on off-shore yachts.

On this holy day it is extra insulting to call attention to the eunuchs and women demeanors who run the world's religions many of whom are childless and in horror at the concept of responsible fatherhood, even for the topmost deity laid back way up high among the clouds pointing a forefinger at Adam or some bloke with steroidal enhancements. And never forget the red devil bachelor across the Styx who eats the tasty offspring cherubs.

Stats official and pharmaceutical studies diagram the neglect of children by their addled forebears' infantile narcissism paraded as loving parents poised for photo shoots with scowling kids unhappy with the goofball mom and dad smiling rather than screaming to be quiet, clean your room, behave, take a bath, go to school, mind your manners.