Poll: How do you feel about children?

[Scarim Coral]

While I do find them quite annoying as hell but I would still like to have one when I do end up in a loving relationship with someone. I suppose this means I will do the best I can to raise him/ her to be a fine person. Don't forget they do GROW up that is if you willing to handle the several years for that to happen.

 

[Soxafloppin]

I really do not want children I can't really communicate with them.

I have however accepted that when i settle down with someone, eventually shes gonna want me to knock a kid out of her.

 

[Someone Depressing]

I can't stand kids.
They're annoying, they're greedy, they're persistent, and they're materialistic little bastards.
Yes, they are stupid, but it's not bad to challenge them.

 

[Eldarion]

I love children.

I'm sorry, but if looking at the little bundles of joy doesn't just make you happy then.....you are a bad person.

How can you people be so heartless?

 

[Bakuryukun]

I think it's silly and actually a little ignorant to not like people just because they are young. I've met plenty of good kids in my lifetime that were more than pleasant to talk to and be around, I've met some litte hellions too. But then, I've met nice people and jerks of almost EVERY age bracket.

When most people say they don't like kids, they are usually talking about the brats of the world, but lest we forget there are plenty if not more adult jerks in the world, so I think it's just easier to say that you hate ungrateful jerks of any age, rather than arbitrarily singling out children. People do it because they are lazy and uninformed, or feel awkward around children. I find in my experience, those who bark on about how bad children are, are usually the LAST to do anything about it, if put into a situation where they really should.

 

[The Gnome King]

I'm not very fond of children in general. Specifically, I am not fond of thinking about what my wife and I would have had to give up these past 11 years if we had children instead of finding a doctor willing to sterilize my wife when we were in our early 20's.

We enjoy being able to do what we want to do, when we want to do it. Our friends with children do not have this luxury. It's not so much that I "hate" children - I don't - but I prefer my life the way it is. People told us we were going to change our minds when those "biological urges" hit but we honestly never did. If you ask my wife or myself now what the best decision we could have made in our relationship is, it was the decision to not have children.

A few interesting links about the happiness (or lack thereof) that children bring to your life:

http://www.newsweek.com/2008/06/28/having-kids-makes-you-happy.html (Notice the title is tongue-in-cheek because the study found that having children subtracts from happiness in married couples)

Or this quote:
"As Daniel Gilbert, a professor of psychology at Harvard University wrote in Time magazine, "Studies reveal that most married couples start out happy and then become progressively less satisfied over the course of their lives, becoming especially disconsolate when their children are in diapers and in adolescence, and returning to their initial levels of happiness only after their children have had the decency to grow up and go away."

See the whole article here:
http://www.deseretnews.com/article/700119798/Studies-say-children-subtract-from-happiness-so-what-do-we-really-feel.html

So perhaps the secret to our long and happy marriage - I was 21 and she was 19 when we tied the knot; and we're still together and in love - was that we never had kids.

Food for thought.

 

[Owyn_Merrilin]

I love children.

I'm sorry, but if looking at the little bundles of joy doesn't just make you happy then.....you are a bad person.

How can you people be so heartless?

Welcome to the escapist, home of the misanthropes.

[sub]Seriously, for a site that is technically a form of social network, we have a ton of anti-social members. It's not just kids they hate; it's people in general.[/sub]

 

[MercurySteam]

I know right? They're so damn annoying. Good thing I was never one....

 

[Bakuryukun]

I'm not very fond of children in general. Specifically, I am not fond of thinking about what my wife and I would have had to give up these past 11 years if we had children instead of finding a doctor willing to sterilize my wife when we were in our early 20's.

We enjoy being able to do what we want to do, when we want to do it. Our friends with children do not have this luxury. It's not so much that I "hate" children - I don't - but I prefer my life the way it is. People told us we were going to change our minds when those "biological urges" hit but we honestly never did. If you ask my wife or myself now what the best decision we could have made in our relationship is, it was the decision to not have children.

A few interesting links about the happiness (or lack thereof) that children bring to your life:

http://www.newsweek.com/2008/06/28/having-kids-makes-you-happy.html (Notice the title is tongue-in-cheek because the study found that having children subtracts from happiness in married couples)

Or this quote:
"As Daniel Gilbert, a professor of psychology at Harvard University wrote in Time magazine, "Studies reveal that most married couples start out happy and then become progressively less satisfied over the course of their lives, becoming especially disconsolate when their children are in diapers and in adolescence, and returning to their initial levels of happiness only after their children have had the decency to grow up and go away."

See the whole article here:
http://www.deseretnews.com/article/700119798/Studies-say-children-subtract-from-happiness-so-what-do-we-really-feel.html

So perhaps the secret to our long and happy marriage - I was 21 and she was 19 when we tied the knot; and we're still together and in love - was that we never had kids.

Food for thought.

So people became less happy when they had to do something hard and stressful and unselfish? *shock*

 

[Eldarion]

I love children.

I'm sorry, but if looking at the little bundles of joy doesn't just make you happy then.....you are a bad person.

How can you people be so heartless?

Welcome to the escapist, home of the misanthropes.

[sub]Seriously, for a site that is technically a form of social network, we have a ton of anti-social members. It's not just kids they hate; it's people in general.[/sub]

I noticed. I'm going back and reading the thread and MY GOD. Its like a trend here. Everyone is a cynical, cold-hearted, antisocial.....person.

Hopefully its a phase that will pass.

 

[PureChaos]

generally i like them. i was going to be a primary school teacher but going to university and analysing the education system put me off. would still like to work with kids but career took a random direction a couple of years ago. i also wanted to have 3 kids but listening to some of my colleagues regularly moaning about their kids has put me off that a bit too so may just have 1, maybe 2

 

[Gigano]

Much like humans in general, it differs from individual to individual; though generally I don't really concern myself with them.

Some are endearing, while others are a bother, and most can probably be either depending on the situation. Wouldn't want to have responsibility for a kid though, can't walk away if annoyance starts then (well, at least not as easily).

 

[jonyboy13]

I despise the little Devil spawns.
Enough people act like them anyway, no point in having both>>"

 

[The Gnome King]

Sure - but if doing something hard and stressful makes you unhappy, why do it? And unselfish? How is raising biological children unselfish? If anything, having children is the single most damaging thing most people will ever do to our overstressed Earth's environment.

http://www.infowars.com/new-york-times-children-bad-for-environment/

http://green.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/08/07/having-children-brings-high-carbon-impact/

I think my wife and I making the responsible choice to make ourselves happy (thus spreading happiness to others) was extremely unselfish, not selfish.

There are plenty of children in this world that need good homes. Unselfish in the extreme would be adopting one of these babies. Also, I don't think that we would make very good parents. Selfish would be inflicting my parenting style on a child I didn't want.

 

[Treblaine]

90% the source of annoyance in kids is from the Parents. My experience working in a hospital is if there parents are all right then the kids will be too as even if they are little brats then the parents are somehow able to reign them in.

When I see the kids acting out and doing dumb shit my rage is directed at the parents, I pity for the kids, they deserve better than to be deluded that their attitude and actions are acceptable.

You cannot consider kids without the parental factor, they are the source of and solution to all problems. Even if they aren't around their guidance and the impending punishment for their misbehaviour will ultimately rule their actions far more than their own internal logic and beliefs.

 

[GameMaNiAC]

Aww. C'mon, guys. You were once young too!

 

[ImmortalDrifter]

Depends on if the kid is a whiny little bastard or an awesome mini-man. Some kids are indeed awesome, while some are whiny, entitled, spoiled pieces of refuse that will grow into fullsized whiny, entitled, spoiled piles of refuse.

MY OPINION HAS BEEN GIVEN! FEAR ME!

 

[Leg End]

Heh my daughter started eating sushi at 3, watches anime, her first knock knock joke was from animaniacs and her favorite game is Super Mario Bros. 2 on my WII and at 5 she made a cosplay for a anime con...As well she learned there we no monsters in the dark using the NVG from my MW2 collectors edition, I can see daddy and my kitties but no mosters. And she loves disney princess but Tigers make everything safe and better cause monsters are afraid of tigers... She loves Slayers, Batman the animated series and one piece. But only Funimation, when shown the 4kids dub she said "Daddy this is stupid I wanna see the real One piece." after one showing...

She's the little bad ass I want defining the new era.

That kid is a bad ass and i'll never think twice about her...ever.

It's a whole new game when yer kid is that awesome.

She gets a win in my book.

Fuck. Yes.

OT: I LOVE THEM.

I plan to adopt several daughters(because there is pretty much no chance in hell that they will be biological).

They will grow up with what I grew up with. Vidya, Animu/Toonami and a nice helping of badass.

Unless they don't want to. :/

But, I will love them forever and ever... dearly... ;~;

EDIT: This just turned into a "wait, what were we originally discussing?" post, didn't it? XD

 

[liveslowdiefast]

yeah i can't stand having one next to me on the bus for 20 mins, let alone 18 years, and have you seen how much money they vaccum up over the years £200,000 in pounds not dollers. (http://www.guardian.co.uk/money/2010/feb/23/child-cost-inflation source)
So no i don't particaualy care for them.

 

[Mr Shrike]

Personally I despise children.

They vomit, they cry, they speak in broken English (at least, the ones that I know do) and they get on my nerves.

To put it bluntly, I should never be allowed to work/spend long periods of time with children. It will not end well, probably for me.