Joshua M.'s Initiative: 10 Parents, One Child

 I started with 3 projects, since I wasn't yet clear even which field my vision fits into, let alone what the project exactly should be.  I had felt so strongly and passionately the need to tell a story to the mainstream (tv) that saves lives and reduces suffering and increases love, and at the same time I felt to tell the story I would have to try to live the values it depicted in my actual life too.   But I don't have any passion for helping the TV industry, and my interview with one person in that field, and conversations with a few others, have helped me recognize that it was disingenuous of me to pretend that I did want to serve there.  Sure, I would in a particular case want someone to be able to get their vision realized and share a work of heart rather than one of commercialism, but if they had to put their work on the stage in a community theatre setting instead I would not feel any significant sense of loss for them. I need to surrender to the process ...

My project is to address the need for population balancing and more deliberate choices about bringing children into the world with intrinsic motivation, not coercion.

I have five rudimentary ideas at this point to solve problems that people feel:

   1. Advocates of lowering population, when trying to get people to have fewer or no children, are met with hostility and indifference. The advocates feel ignored, left out and hurt.
 
  Solution : “child-pooling.”  A matchmaking service that pairs childless people with parents. Let childless people be the "fun uncle" or "fun aunt" and play a role in the child's life without them needing to bring a whole new body into the world.
  

 2. if you don't have your own bio-children, your parents feel deprived, as if they die and their legacy doesn't live on.
 
  Solution : adopt a young person (at least legal adult) who wants some more support but also has a voice in how they want to be treated and wa...