atheism and children

[Fidel_Castronaut]

I don't think they're saying having kids is an immoral injustice to them.  They're challenging the idea that every person is grateful for their existence.  Until I had kids, I loathed my being alive and truly wished I had never been born.  Now that I've found some slight semblance of happiness, I'm torn about whether or not my existence has been worth it.

That is something to take into consideration when a person chooses to have children.

No, they also said that it is immoral because you are bringing someone into existence without their consent.

I would argue that if we're going to consider this a moral question, we should be considering both the (in)direct impact of more humans on our environment and societies as well as the potential struggles a child growing up in the next century will face. As I mentioned in the other thread, standards of living for many (in the west least) are going down and not up, meaning generations being born today are likely to find life more 'difficult' than their parents for the first time in recent history.