Life is so short. It is not to be wasted in unnecessary foolishness.
Live and love - and love totally and intensely but never against freedom. Freedom should remain the ultimate value.
The family has destroyed that freedom.
In my vision, the future is not for families. The future is for communes, and the commune is the refined, bigger family; so big that whatever the small family was creating - all kinds of perversions - is no longer created. And children should be taken care of by the commune, by the experts. In the first place, just because you have a wife, it does not mean that you have the right to become a father or the right to become a mother.
The commune should have a training. Anybody who wants to become a father or mother must go through the training. You can remain married, you can remain together - that is between you two - but you don't disturb a third life.
You have no right to produce a child if you don't have the right training to bring him up, to help him to be a blissful human being. The psychologists will discover, the doctors will think about it, the gynecologists will have to ponder over it, and unless you get clearance from these people, you are not to produce a child.
Man can produce children without any difficulty. That does not mean that you become a father and a mother. Those are skills, arts. To help a living being grow needs some expertise.
And the society, the commune, will decide how many children it needs - so that children can be nourished well, educated well; so that overpopulation does not disturb things; so nobody is unemployed, nobody is uneducated, nobody is poor.
So much is known now about the human child, and impregnation, that not to use that scientific knowledge would be simply idiotic. We are using it on animals, but we are not using it on human beings. In human beings we are still continuing with the accidental way of producing children.
-Osho, "The Transmission of the Lamp #31"