Can 'Pet Parenthood' Replace the Real Thing?

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I'm gonna get a lot of email about this commentary, so let me say this up front: I like animals. And pets are wonderful things. But ...

In her 1992 novel, "The Children of Men," P. D. James told the story of a world where it has been 25 years since the last child was born. In this dying world, kittens and puppies are pushed around in prams and receive the treatment previously afforded to human infants.

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