I do want kids, but probably in my late 20s, or just whenever my girlfriend and I would be ready.
Having Children...yes or no?
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Vault101 said:
I'm inherantly broken on an innate genetic level, I will never have kids because in doing so I risk passing that on, even if it misses a generation. I didn't eventually wind up retired on disabillity just for the yucks. In some ways it's quite scary how quickly I got rubber stamped for retirement/social security given some of the people that I know really need/deserve it and can't get it. Of course then again I have paperwork going back to when I was like six and an interesting history to say the least.
Myself aside, on a general level I think people need to have less kids simply because of overpopulation. Genereations ago we knew we needed to embrace zero population growth, and we didn't. Right now what we need is an actual negative population growth. Whether it be politics, or resources, or any of a million other things I think a lot of the problems boil down to the fact that there are too many bloody people out there, and it's getting to be impossible to maintain.
One of the reasons why I'm such a war-monger, and so callous when it comes to dispatching people by the billions even if it seems Hitler-Like, is that I feel that objectively something like that would be a good thing if we could contain a "baby boom" afterwards. See, it's one thing to tell an individual "we should cull you" or to cull your own population, but in large groups it becomes a lot less personal, and while scary that's sort of what we need right now. I think there are plenty of things worth fighting for as well.
This is also incidently one of the reasons why we need to achieve a world unity and get out into space IMO. We need living space. Even if we never find aliens or anything, we have the tech needed to say build habitates on Mars and the like (just as we can build them underwater). We need places to put people so our population can expand so we don't need to periodically wonder "oh gee, how do we cull the population this time" every century or two. Constant expansion is something we need, and space is the only place we can go, not to mention the need for resources and the like and while we're unsure about aliens we know we're going to find minerals and the like out there from the astroids we've had crash, and various probes that have sent back soil analysis and such.
At any rate, I'm rambling. While it would be abused, a lot of the time I pretty much think we should reversibly castrate/sterlize everyone born, and then make people apply to the goverment to have children based on their resources, suitability to be parents, and similar factrors. Doubtlessly this would lead to a situation with the higher economic strata raising more children, and a lot of people screaming about the fundemental human right to reproduce and have heirs to carry on in their name. In the end though it results in controlled population levels until such a time as we could deal with our own unfettered breeding. A good case could be made for such a "travesty" being the lesser of evils.
We can't stop having kids, but we sure as heck need to start having a whole lot less of them.
Such are my overall thoughts on children and having them, both personally, and on a societal level.
I'm happily married, but I'm also a dirt-poor PhD student with a whole bouquet of wonderful hereditary conditions who's clinging on to the last of his thirties by a few atoms of fingernail.
My answer is left as an exercise for the reader.
My answer is left as an exercise for the reader.
I'd definitely like kids some time in the future, but not until I've been working a few years. I'd have to be capable of taking care of myself (and them) financially, and I'd have to be a little older than I am since I have no wish to become a teen-pregnancy statistic (one more day and I'm safe from that forever). And I can see myself adopting, provided I felt (same goes for biological kids of mine) that I could give them what they needed.
They didn't want the kids. They just wanted the sex. Catholicism, you do the mathJulianking93 said:
My personal view is almost one of being obliged to have kids in the future. After all, I'm somewhat doubtful on immortality being discovered soon enough to be useful for me, so might as well have my own little half-clone taught by me properly taking over my future corporate empire rather than some random halfwit produced from inferior genetic material.
Or not. I don't really care one way or the other at this point in time.
I'll have kids, but I need to have the correct financial clout in order to make it so that they won't have the same childhood I had. Also, I would need a girlfriend/wife in order to have the correct amount of chromosomes available to have them. And...er...you know, do the horrizontal boogie
I'm nearly 21 now, so I've got the better part of a decade or so before I have kids. I'd rather live life to the max up until my peak age, and then dedicate my downhill ages to my kids.
My prime belongs to me. They'll have theirs as well.
Also, I don't know about anyone else, but I'm gonna spank my kids when they get out of line. It worked on me.
My prime belongs to me. They'll have theirs as well.
Also, I don't know about anyone else, but I'm gonna spank my kids when they get out of line. It worked on me.
Yes. I'd love to have my first when I'm 24-27.
But that all depends on when I'll meet the guy who's gonna be the father.
And no, I don't think it's selfish to choose not to have kids. My brother decided not to have any because of the risk of passing on our terrible depression/OCD-genes. So given that, one might say I'm the one who's selfish for wanting to have kids in the first place.
But that all depends on when I'll meet the guy who's gonna be the father.
And no, I don't think it's selfish to choose not to have kids. My brother decided not to have any because of the risk of passing on our terrible depression/OCD-genes. So given that, one might say I'm the one who's selfish for wanting to have kids in the first place.
Oh, I love when people say they won't have them.
I've yet to meet someone without a kid unless they have seminal problems or something.
I'll have kids one day, no doubt about it.
I just hope I have them with the right girl.
I've yet to meet someone without a kid unless they have seminal problems or something.
I'll have kids one day, no doubt about it.
I just hope I have them with the right girl.
I was ready to be a mother... up until my miscarriage almost 3 months ago.
Now... I am not ready for a child. I will have one again someday. When I get a better job, finish school, and maybe am married to my boyfriend. A couple of years. About 3 or 5.
I want 3 or 4 children. Right now I am happy playing mother with my goddaughter and soon to be born godson.
Now... I am not ready for a child. I will have one again someday. When I get a better job, finish school, and maybe am married to my boyfriend. A couple of years. About 3 or 5.
I want 3 or 4 children. Right now I am happy playing mother with my goddaughter and soon to be born godson.