I have thought about having children, but I just know kids would drive me up the wall.
Some people are stoic enough to have children; the rest of us aren’t.
I think if people are honest enough to not want children, they definitely are not candidates to have children. For whatever reasons. Many realize the massive gravity of the responsibility of raising good kids and the dedication that requires, and believe in not half-assing it for the rest of us. I wish more people thought harder before phoning it in and doing a piss-poor job and giving us ferals and multi generational welfare minded gimmefreesh1tters.
I have thought about having children, but I just know kids would drive me up the wall.
Some people are stoic enough to have children; the rest of us aren’t.
It's been said having children is like being pecked to death by a chicken.
“Some people are stoic enough to have children; the rest of us aren’t.”
You might be amazed at how your heart and mind would change, if you ever do have a child.
I have six, and highly recommend it.
Unfortunately, or perhaps not, only real-life experience can either validate or objectively disprove your opinion re your tolerance for children being what they are, candidates for civilizing.
And for me a family is out of the question financially. Permanently. I’ve mostly made peace with it but I wish there was a nearby city I could move to with no kids or young families so I didn’t constantly get reminded of what I’m missing.
Well I didn’t mean to suggest that you, or everyone else eschewing parenthood is a self-centered snowflake. I apologize for my poor word choice. An honest assessment before the fact is the most responsible thing to do. And it generally follows that people who do make that honest assessment are considering what’s best for the children as well as themselves, so it’s not selfish at all.
Additionally, there’s nothing selfish or irresponsible about making independent financial plans, sans children, for one’s own care in the senior years.
What I meant is that a lot of these demanding “snowflake” personality types-—all about meeee, I want everything right now, I don’t wanna feeeeel any discomfort-—are the center of their oywn little universe and presume it’s the responsibility of everyone else—or the government— to take care of them. Being willing to make wise choices, much less sacrifices now with a view to the future, seems to be outside the snowflake repertoire, at least from what I’ve read about them.
If these folks fail to plan for their childless old age, they may wake up one day and realize they’re old and poor and alone, and the world may not be as sympathetic to their needs.
I haven’t quite mastered the FReeper skill of saying whatever in a sentence or two. Sorry for the verbosity.