With the loss of our son to suicide, and the estrangement of our daughter, we’re kind of in the same boat. We do have two beautiful grandsons, but are not allowed to participate in their lives. It’s very difficult for my wife and I to see our contemporaries celebrating their grandchildren, especially at this time of year.
Let the Leftist schools raise your kids and (often) you can kiss-off becoming a grandparent. But what the hell, public school is FREE, so that’s all that matters. Right?
I have 14 grandchildren. Christmas is expensive but thats the only downside. It’s made up for with hundreds of hugs, and text messages and fun times. ( i had five children so 14 is normal)
Son is 40, obvious he will never marry. Daughter married last month, her children will have his name of course. My children will be the last generation with my last name, a name which I have traced back to the 900s in Norman France. It is sad.
The culture is sick. Movies used to always end with the couple living happily ever after in a small cottage with a white picket fence and 2.3 children
They can mourn it, but they can’t righteously demand it.
Especially considering that they raised the young adults who are passing on parenthood.
Civilizations end when women refuse to have children.
what’s wrong with you?... you always find something to complain about today’s society... look on the bright side about these people having enough common sense to not need an abortion... geez... there’s no pleasing you hypocrites...
They raised them…so they at least have partial responsibility to their lack of grandkids and the end of their gene pool
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 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.
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.
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.
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
Our daughters are both happily married and successful in their careers. Neither one wants children - they are not opposed to children in general, they just don’t want to go through the process of birthing them. Older daughter has always said she might adopt, but hasn’t happened either. We have to be content with grandcats.
Another treeless Christmas. I've been too sick recovering from cancer this year to be concerned with decorations. My middle son is living in my home, but opted to run off to Red Lodge, MT to spend a week with his abusive girlfriend. My wife and I are plotting a simple Christmas dinner. Cheese and onion enchiladas. Perhaps a quiche. We have some good gruyer cheese and a nice pre-made flakey crust. Leftover Indian food from this evening includes vegetable biryani rice and chicken korma.
....”now simply keep quiet as their children remain unmarried into their thirties, often citing climate change, racism, and school shootings as their reasons to be childless. One 69-year-old mom said her daughter has “made it perfectly clear … that this subject is not to be discussed.”
Daughter....women..... alimony.✖️....child ✖️support.... solipsism...✖️
Strike three , your 🖤