I expect I will get slammed for this, but, *ahem*:

Babies - toddlers - children - are *actually* capable of filling emotional voids.

I don't have one myself, but I have a niece I like to borrow. I'm sure there are lots of reasons not to have children at 14, and I support most of them - and I'm also sure that wanting to have someone little to love isn't the healthiest way to start out some new person's life - but all of that said, is it odd that seeing this feels kind of positive for me?

I would much rather see a girl having a child because she wants to love it than having a child because she doesn't believe in abortions and feels trapped but doesn't see a way out, or a woman having a child because she's married and has a career and feels this is the "next" step even though she doesn't want it.