Poll: How do you feel about children?

[Verp]

That's one of the worst ways to look at life in my opinion. A balanced life is a good life. Ergo, taking the glass half full but half empty if that makes sense.

I understand what you mean, but I don't agree with it. Very well, I believe it's time to end this debate, as neither of us are going to give in. We'll have to agree to disagree. Nice speaking to you.

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Well, if you can't handle people disliking something you like, then I guess you'll stand there and take the barrage of hate by yourself. You could just politely point out that others are being awfully rude instead of being condescending, but hay, nobody's stopping you, just criticising you.

But, while I'm at it, let me suggest something. Remember this part from your comment on page 1?

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How about you stop assuming and announcing that this is a phase that people will grow out of? Really, if you are a parent like you claim to be, you have no business saying this to anybody, least of all minors who you seem to assume to be talking about in that post. Kids' and young adults' lives aren't a "phase" just because they're developing, it's their lives and they're all going to carry parts of it into adulthood.

Childhood is something that all of our lives are built upon, as little as some of us might think of children or childhood. You do not know what traits and opinions are going to last to a person's death bed, so stop pretending that you do -- it's only going to make people, including your kid sister, think less of your words and disregard the rest of your expertise.

Besides, all people are developing, deteriorating, or both -- constantly! By the logic that young adults' words shouldn't be taken seriously because they're likely to change over time, none of us should ever be taken seriously.

I admit I probably should have been diplomatic, but no-ones perfect, and it's not like I'm the only one who's been over-the-top.

Just saying, that from my own experience in real life, the vast majority of young adult males and a large percentage of females claim that they don't want children, then change their minds later in life. I'm not saying that every single person here will change their minds, just a large chunk of them.

Phases are definitely real, for example many (important note: not all) children go through a "religious" phase between about 6 and 9, when they're old enough to properly understand religion for the first time but not yet old enough to think critically about it. After that stage, some will decide religion is true and gain a deeper understanding of it, others will dismiss it as false. Opinion of children in the teenage years is the same thing.

Phases are real, but all of us are living one because they are by no means restricted to childhood. Adulthood has phases too -- the so-called "mid-age crisis" is one of them.

 

[JoJo]

Phases are real, but all of us are living one because they are by no means restricted to childhood. Adulthood has phases too -- the so-called "mid-age crisis" is one of them.

That's completely true, I'm in several phases right now. Honestly though, I don't believe that every single user on here who claims they won't have kids will never change their minds, because of both simple statistics (about 85% of Americans have atleast one child by their mid-forties) and my own experience considering all but one of my male friends claimed when they were teens that they never wanted kids.

Please note I'm not making this judgement on any particular individual, including you, I'm merely saying that the likeihood is that this will happen to a large of chunk of the group has a whole.

 

[Quinadin]

I like kids
I like good kids.
As long as they're not pricks I enjoy the company of small children.
I tell you what if there's one thing I can't stand it's a disrespectful little twerp. Well any disrespectful person really.
Also the reason baby's eyes are so big is because that's the size they'll be their whole life.

 

[stormtrooper9091]

I loathe children. Possibly the one thing i can single out as the most ferociously hated in my life.

 

[Marowit]

I want to have at least 2, at most 4.

No plans for starting that in the next 5 years though.

 

[Naheal]

I love kids. My spawn would be bad for the world, though.

 

[Chefodeath]

I don't know really.

I sort of am a kid on the inside, but I also tend to go through terrible bouts of self-loathing.