Pope Francis has suggested people who choose to have pets over children are acting selfishly. "We see that some people do not want to have a child. Sometimes they have one, and that's it, but they have dogs and cats that take the place of children" adding the practice "is a denial of fatherhood and motherhood and diminishes us, takes away our humanity". What do you think?
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