I think it is a very good question. Having kids myself, I have to say no. (I even thought that before I had kids, now I am certain). To me one of the greatest repsonsibility you have toward your children is teaching them how to be successful in life, including in the social society in which they live. I, like some others here, was clearly told I was an accident--my mother even told me she would never have kids if she had to do it over again. That's just for starters.
My father, who was an alcoholic (non-JW) and pretty much self absorbed, abdicated basically all raising of us to my mother. He didn't believe it, but apparently JWism was good enough for his chidren; an added bennie: he thought it kept us out of drugs and sex...In his heart, he knew it was crap, but he let my mother force us to be a JW. As a JW, of course, my mother made every attempt to isolate us from normal, healthy society, and in fact, constantly instilled in us how the world was going to be destroyed any day now, so why bother trying to be "successful" in this system of things. How can that be healthy??? How can ANYONE condone raising a child in that way.
And then, when I and my sibling finally said we did not intend to be witnesses, we were told we were grave disappointments... Ugh!
Don't get me wrong. I know I'm not a perfect parent. But, god, I've got to be better than that. I hope to raise my children to have choices, to be able to critically analyze decisions and POVs, and to try to achieve their goals and have a healthy sense of belonging.
I don't think my parents did that. I think I have forgiven them at some level, and of course I love them. But I think they get about a D+ in the parent department...
