Letter to the Globe: The Joy of Children - and of Parenting

The Globe and Mail published this letter February 21.

Re “Policy Alone Won't Fix Canada's Fertility Crisis": (14 February): Robyn Urbach is so right when she calls for not only a range of child-friendly and parent-friendly policy changes but also an attitudinal change—less emphasis on the costs of having children and the burdens of having children (real though those certainly are), and much more emphasis on the many ways in which raising children is a wonderful experience. Children are indeed a joy—and so is parenthood.