You’ll be surprised how un-gross changing diapers is.
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They have medicine for that.
Ditto, it is truly tragic sometimes, to meet women who have begun to try too late, and will fail to conceive, most of them.
This is all a matter of fashion. Its a strange and infuriating thing to see families end, childless, grandchildren-less, because of some toxic fashion.
Words really can kill.
This is like reducing human populations through a form of culturally-induced human pest control.
Diapers??? really?? People use that as an excuse??
My wife and I got married later in life after glorious single lives but I could not imagine diapers being a reason for avoidance. Costs don’t seem realistic either. The first world is awash in cheap childrens clothes, toys, etc. The real investment is time - which I am happy to make.
Had I known how wonderful children were I wish I had started earlier. I would have had 10 or more by now.
Bfl
I have enough inheritable minor health problems that have stumped a few great medical minds and have been no joy at all. The chance that a kid might inherit any of them makes having one just unthinkable to me. Yes it is a judgement call.
My wife has no desire to have children. Being uncle and aunt are OK with us are OK.
There are plenty of people who have no business having kids or even pets. Why should people be shamed into having kids if they are not suited for it?
“adamant about not having kids as a young man, I tried to get my tubes tied at the tender age of 21”
That’s a woman thing as far as I know.
Youth is wasted on the young.
If my Wife & I could get away from the first, we’d work on a second...
I don’t understand conservatives who claim they don’t want children because of current trends in the USA. They capitulate to minor temporal events in one particular country with a decent constitution. Their ancestors presumably survived far worse over the past thousands of years and it ends with them. Sad.
If I do not reproduce there will be no shortage of children.
There is a huge downside today, if your a man.
Time would be better spent telling islamos and GibsMeDats to stop pinching off so many parasites. As if the 3rd world needs more offspring.
I’m a happy grandpa but it’s stupid to tell someone that doesn’t want them that they’re reasons are stupid. “I don’t want kids” is plenty good enough. There are rewards and sacrifices in having children and some are more important to some than others.
The title made me want to read this, but this jerk’s foul language made me stop. Good grief!
My husband and I married young and learned when we were still quite young that we would never have children.
We mulled it over for a while, a short while and then we adopted a son. 3 years later we adopted another son and 6 years later a daughter!
No problem!
Kids are stressful and expensive but you will never know real joy without them. People who don’t have children purposefully are living in a self-imposed tragedy.
I used to say the same things when I was a teen. I’m never getting married.. I’m never having children.
I’m married and we now have more children than anyone I know. Interesting how that works!
I don’t have kids, I don’t want kids. Why is that made out to be some horrible thing by so many people?