[se_ohio_young_conservative]

When you are 75 years old, sitting and looking out into the backyard with no grandkids to watch play, make cookies for or spoil...

then you might just regret not having children...

[LizardQueen]

Did you read what I posted the first time? My husband had a drug problem for 13 years and I elected not to subject a child to that.

My old age isn't your problem or your business, so go thump on someone else.

LQ

[najida]

OR,
What I think LizardQueen is saying....it that it's better to look into an empty back yard than at a
jail cell,
or a tombstone,
or a psyche ward....

All the places that kids could end up when their the parents shouldn't have had them.

It takes tremendous heartache and courage to acknowledge the kind of parent you could be.....I have more respect for those who see that as a strong chance and walk away than those who say "I have the plumbing, lets have a kid!"

Then methodically destroy them.

[The Worthless Miracle]

Having kids isn't going to "make you happy". If you have kids because you think it will, that's putting a lot of responsibility on them!

[MikefromOhio]

Look around.

I am willing to bet that you can think of several people just in your town that shouldn't have had kids.

God granted humans the ability to think for themselves.

It is between that person or couple and God. Any preacher who says otherwise or just comes up with things, as this preacher did in this case, is flat out wrong.

[linda_22003]

Or I'll be making cookies with my goddaughters' children, just as I did with them. Or (more likely), having cocktails with friends as we watch the sunset over our mountaintop.

My mother-in-law had children, and they won't have anything to do with her. There are no guarantees.

[Xenalyte]

I figure that's why my sister has three. I can spoil them and not have to live with the consequences.

[TruthSetsUFree]

"When you are 75 years old, sitting and looking out into the backyard with no grandkids to watch play, make cookies for or spoil... then you might just regret not having children..."

Your world view is way too narrow and you must not know enough people. I know many people who have not had children and who in their old age have many children in their lives. We can invest ourselves in others without having children, and in return reap the rewards of that investment.

And on the other hand I know of many parents and grandparents sitting in nursing homes with absolutely no visitors, including their own family.

If you have children just to be sure you won't be alone when you're old you just very well may be disappointed someday.

[OldPossum]

When you are 75 years old, sitting and looking out into the backyard with no grandkids to watch play, make cookies for or spoil...

then you might just regret not having children...

Your #36 post (which appears above) is remarkable for its absence of perspective. You identify yourself as a "young conservative." That being the case, what experience do you bring to such a conclusion as to how someone should live her life?

This might come as a surprise to you but not everyone envisions spending her old age sitting in a backyard watching over grandchildren.

[Dazedcat]

When you are 75 years old, sitting and looking out into the backyard with no grandkids to watch play, make cookies for or spoil...

then you might just regret not having children...


Yeah but that's her decision to make. If that's how her life goes, then so be it. I'm not sure she needs the "wrath of God" thrown in for good measure.

God protect us all from fundamentalists.

[napscoordinator]

I hate when people say that sh!t. the neighbor women had four children and all died before she did. What an idiotic thing to say.