Posted on 12/23/2024 3:25:16 PM PST by Morgana
I’ll volunteer to walk around the school in a Smokey the Bear hat.
At 21 my wife had severe endometriosis and lost a complete ovary and part of the other by the time she was 22. The scarring ended it for kids. My military career ended any discussions with adoption agencies (at the time they demanded a stable residence).
Our parents kept pressuring us about when they were going to have grandkids. People we worked with asked why no kids. They even went as far as asking "Who's fault was it?"
Eventually I wound up teaching high school and by my count, we had 2,400 kids over the years. They just went home after school.
I don’t think I’ll have grandkids. My one daughter who’s married has issues that will make getting pregnant difficult. They aren’t sure they want to adopt.
My other 2 aren’t married or even dating. I actually don’t see them getting married.
I’m sorry ten18. 🙏💚
Your situation was not by choice. The article is about those who chose not to reproduce. And with so many babies being aborted, adoption is not the option it once was.
I am disappointed some though. I think of all the time I could have spent building neat things an doing what I think would pass for fun. Different times though. Probably different scale of fun. I'm no good at entertaining others anyway. Don't like it.
This is a huge problem. Home school your children or send them to private schools if you can afford it.
My sister does the mom thing of three kids.
I figured out in my teens that I had zero interest in being a parent type.
A lot of reasons but a big one is that I have a few kids inherited physical problems that made life lousy a lot growing up and I would rather not pass any along.
The culture of self-extermination, as I call it, is a profoundly anti-human movement. Consider that when a person has no children, genetic lineages that go back to the dawn of creation are cut off and ended. All so that people can indulge in short-sighted narcissism for a few decades before expiring.
You are right. There are other reasons people are childless. My point was that we don't want to be lumped into the group this article is addressing.
Estrangement from my stepsons due to a breakup has left me bereft of grandchildren. The boys *DO* have kids, but I will never see them.
I found the love of my life, she just never reciprocated and I ended up alone.
Do you think the Lord will forgive me, if what you claim is my sole duty to Him?
Think about what you say and how you say it next time.
No, it takes an insane asylum. There are some men and women who don't have children in order to avoid affecting them with the same disorders they faced growing up, and possibly developed their own.
Having children as pets is delusional, selfish, or psychopathic.
There is no village and never was. Women in particular don't get help. Prisons are full of their offspring and society is ravaged by their offspring's actions.
It was fantasy on a screen, not reality.
This article describes "having a kid for no reason other than supporting the team" - consequences be damned. Sick.
Our fourth was born three hours ago - a beautiful little ginger-haired girl. Grandkids are a true building
See post 8.
“A lot of reasons but a big one is that I have a few kids inherited physical problems that made life lousy a lot growing up and I would rather not pass any along.”
Anytime you have a child it is a crap-shoot. You can have what is considered a perfect baby physically and then later in life psychological problems show up. All you can do is pray for your children pre and post birth.
Totally disagree.
Women having children outside of marriage as is rampant in today’s society has nothing to do with God’s plan for men and women to procreate and populate this world.
The womyn of today who “sleep” with men indiscriminately, then get pregnant, then live their lives as martyrs as “single mothers” while their children suffer are the worst of society, all the while living off the government.
That is NOT what the Bible talks about as being fruitful and multiplying.
Move to Utah.
Um, no thanks. We don’t like special underwear?
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