Kids

[Global Skeptic]

For one - I am to old. Secondly - I am not mentally fit as to having children.

 

[rugbyLEAGUEfan]

For one - I am to old. Secondly - I am not mentally fit as to having children.

I wouldn't worry about it. Who is? There are just varying degrees of incompetence. Most people can't drive without sitting in the overtaking lane, let alone produce replicas of God's masterwork. Really, he should have just let new people grow on trees and left us out of the whole thing.

 

[Global Skeptic]

I wouldn't worry about it. Who is? There are just varying degrees of incompetence. Most people can't drive without sitting in the overtaking lane, let alone produce replicas of God's masterwork. Really, he should have just let new people grow on trees and left us out of the whole thing.

Thanks But since I for certain aspects of normal fall outside that one as it comes to sane, I don't want to take the chance.

 

[Joecoolyo]

Eventually. To be honest, being a parent sounds pretty cool, being able to raise a family and a little version of yourself, showing them the world.

I wouldn't want to have one now though, too young. But when I settle down a bit, it sounds really nice.

 

[Antilogic]

An opportunity to engage in a little imperfect cloning to generate vulnerable, brainwash-able and torment-able serfs?

Who isn't voting yes again?

 

[cybrxkhan]

An opportunity to engage in a little imperfect cloning to generate vulnerable, brainwash-able and torment-able serfs?

Who isn't voting yes again?

My father will tell you, from personal experience, that some of those serfs are extremely rebellious and militant to the point where you just can't win against them. (Oh, I'm talking about my younger brother, by the way - I was the obedient kid. )

 

[Grisu]

Are you planning on having kids sometime in your life? If so, why?

too late to ask myself now, already got 2 kids and a third is on the way

 

[Antilogic]

My father will tell you, from personal experience, that some of those serfs are extremely rebellious and militant to the point where you just can't win against them. (Oh, I'm talking about my younger brother, by the way - I was the obedient kid. )

As a failure to be a good right-wing Catholic like my daddy and granddaddy, I assure you I know what you are talking about.

 

[Terxpahseyton]

Yes. Because 1) I want to suffer like my parents did, and feel their pain at raising annoying angsty Americanized Asian-American brats. 2) See how messed up my kids become with my awesome parenting skills. 3) In all honesty, I know kids are a whole wallop to deal with - one that will probably overwhelm me - but I want to go through with it anyhow. 4) And, preferably, I'll have them when I'm not too old. That way, they'd be a good investment - if I raise them using good Asian, Confucian values, they will be providing tons of goodies and stuff for me when I'm old and ancient, like all good Asian kids (in reality the chances of this... well, it isn't as good as in Asia, I guess. Whatever.)

Now as a random note I would prefer to have at least one kid of either gender, but that might be a bit difficult.

Yeah, killing your newborn when it is the wrong gender isn't so big in the white-men's world

As to the question: I would say that I am a good candidate for another "Ugh no, better not". Kids don't seems to harmonize with how I imagine a good life very much.
Yet, I am pretty certain that getting kids can be an utmost rewarding experience like nothing else can. That it provides benefits which to me appear to be increasingly overlooked by what popular culture suggests to be a good life to the younger generations.

In the end I am not quit sure. I kind of want both: The more to my personal interests tailored life of the childless and the experience of having children. I suppose my future experiences of life and my future partners will nail the choice for me.

 

[Hygro]

someone's gotta work my factories.

 

[sophie]

Are you at all capable of making a real OP? Like...even once?

Yes I absolutely would like to have kids some day.

 

[rugbyLEAGUEfan]

Are you at all capable of making a real OP? Like...even once?

Now there's a worthy question-not- worth-it's-own-thread.

 

[Borachio]

Fortunately, I've reached the point where this is no longer something I consider.

I used to want children, though I really couldn't have given you a good reason why.

But, oh, the awesome (and I don't use the word lightly) responsibility!

 

[azzaman333]

Eventually. Need to find a compatible female first though.

 

[LucyDuke]

An opportunity to engage in a little imperfect cloning to generate vulnerable, brainwash-able and torment-able serfs?

Who isn't voting yes again?

You have to wipe their butts and feed them for years. And (unlike dogs, I might add) you get arrested if you leave them unwatched. Better to mess with your friends' kids.

 

[Zelig]

I have a 14 month old daughter and she is the greatest thing that ever happened to me.

Whenever people in real life start talking like this I assume it's just biology fooling them and I start talking about random non-kid-related things I've done which are the Greatest Thing Ever, until they stop talking about their kids.

 

[ELITEOFWARMAN8]

You can tell this thread was started by a young person because it presumes none of the respondents already have progeny running around.

I don't have any kids, I'm 20, be 21 early next year.

too late to ask myself now, already got 2 kids and a third is on the way

I should have added another option "Already taken!".


I don't want kids. Have no interest in having any or see a point why when I could adopt.

 

[Leifmk]

Well, you might change your mind at some point in the next 20-40 years. Or then again, you might not.

 

[ELITEOFWARMAN8]

I don't think I will. I don't see the need for me to have kids for what? Lower tax rate? It be nice for a family tree standpoint but otherwise, nah.

 

[Farm Boy]

You have to wipe their butts and feed them for years. And (unlike dogs, I might add) you get arrested if you leave them unwatched. Better to mess with your friends' kids.

The revulsion factor wears off pretty quickly.

I know this is pretty stupid, but after watching myself, my wife, and those I know who have children I can honestly say I think Westerners tend to start on this too late in life. There are realities of biology that make this easier on women if they start in their 20s instead of 30s and dang, being a parent takes a lot of energy. I miss some of that "Farm Boy at 24 years-old" vim that you can start to feel leaking out of your body at ~30. Maybe I just need to work out more, but now where would I find the time?

In my limited 8 months of experience being a parent for one kid, it's complicated. You spend a lot of time doing stuff you don't particularly want to be doing. I can't imagine that is going to go away. My entertainment options are far more constrained now. My wife works evenings(with non standard weekends) and the kiddo goes to bed at 8PM, I'm well and sincerely stuck at home after that point. Can't go to the store unless I want to wake him up and bundle him up, and trust me, that isn't worth it. It's really rather remarkable how even though right now I have 100% of the power in my son's and my relationship it really rather feels like I am not the one in charge.

I dunno. It's still a good thing. The kiddo provides a purpose to life that wasn't really there before. There's a point to everything that kind of feels like it was missing before. I think I would have regretted not being a parent a little more every year had I chosen not to.