[mynaflzak]

"The fool worries, thinking, I have sons, I have wealth. Indeed, when he himself is not his own, whence are sons, whence is wealth?"

Just as a quick little aside about references - the above quote from the URL link #4 is cited as Chapter 5 verse 3 of the Dhammapada at that particular website.

The correct reference according to my own Gil Fronsdal translation, as well as according to the illustrated version of the Dhammapada (with explanations of the verses) at Buddhanet is Chapter 5 verse 62 -and not verse 3. The verses are usually counted from the first chapter onwards.

http://www.buddhanet.net/dhammapada/d_fools.htm

and the same at 'Access to Insight'

http://www.accesstoinsight.org/tipit...p.05.budd.html

Ok, sorry for that interruption, back to 'Buddhism and children' again