I've got a niece who is smart, responsible and pretty. She and her long-term boyfriend are dithering about having kids, so have dogs and cats instead. My wife and I are gently prodding her to consider children, but both were brought up in divorced households, being told typical post-modern crap that relationships are fluid, immigrants replacing them are great, they are damaging the planet, etc... cognitive dissonance reigns.
PG: That’s where you and the missus come in. Just move in down the street. The kid(s) will figure it out if turbulence hits.
If they don’t want kids, don’t push it.
“She and her long-term boyfriend are dithering about having kids”
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If he’s not eager to marry her, she should kick him to the curb, and let him take the animals with him. A man who doesn’t want to marry and have kids isn’t worth a bucket of warm piss.
(Poking nose in where it doesn’t belong mode OFF)
Many people who refuse to have children out of pure selfishness find convenient masks for their choice; environmentalism today provides a common one. It is not my business if people voluntarily choose to forego children, but I’m tired of hearing the same people complain about the number of foreigners here; they are being imported as a direct result of those Americans’ choices.
Any co-habitating woman who has pets probably has a slim chance of ever getting married, and an even slimmer chance of having children.