[Alien Gunfighter]

I encourage people to not have children. I mean really, have you looked at the people around you? Most people aren't qualified to take care of themselves, much less someone else.

Fewer people means more jobs, more space, higher-quality living for less money, and a better environment for me. That, and I like watching government entities squirm when they think about how the declining birthrate is going to affect the Social Security program that they have been looting for years.

[infidel dog]

Couldn't agree with you more, Pal. Of course, you're going to get a lot of outraged screeching from the rabbit people on this. But don't get me wrong, I love kids. Really! Unfortunately all the chefs with the skills to prepare them properly are in New Guinea and refuse to leave the island...

[timm22]

Fewer people means more jobs, more space, higher-quality living for less money, and a better environment for me.

Perhaps, but it also means less technological and cultural innovation. A lot of great innovators have come from surprising backgrounds.

[xJones]

I encourage people to not have children. I mean really, have you looked at the people around you? Most people aren't qualified to take care of themselves, much less someone else.

Personally, I have no interest in having children of my own. I just wish both sides could learn to tolerate and respect the other's decisions.

I can respect the rational decision that having kids isn't for everyone. We all know the problems with children being born every day to irresponsible parents, at least one of which has minimal interest at best in the infant. What we are seeing is a large number of educated white people who, for whatever reasons, aren't having children.

It's not very cheerful thinking about a future with a majority population that wasn't raised to the same standards and beliefs that dear old mom and dad sacrificed to teach you. If you're lucky, you'll have a nephew or niece that will care enough about you to call now and then when old age creeps up. It's the weirdest thing, but boomers, etc. never think we'll get old. That's for all our elder relatives, although they keep dying off these days...

But for all your experiences and travels, you will never know the joy of watching your kid trying to get up and walk the first time, the joy of their crazy birthday parties, or the joy of little arms around your neck, kissing mama or daddy goodnight. I've enjoyed quite a lot of experiences in my life so far, but nothing beats the knowledge that the memory of the civilization I was born in, and what I've learned will live on in my kids.

[Huck]

My grandmother counselled me before she died not to have kids. Said my upbringing left me unprepared to raise kids properly. I've taken her advice. My grandma was the most solid, reliable adult in my life. I miss her. God is very, very good to me for some inexplicable reason, and He gave me a wife who is like me. I guess we're mutants. We have 6 guinea pigs and two bunny rabbits.