[discostu]

Which is fine, accidental pregnancies and outside the scope of what I’m talking about. I’m talking about the people like the poster I originally replied to, the ones that come out and say “well if you don’t have kids you’re going to be lonely in your old age and no one will remember your shallow existence”. That’s a shallow reason to have kids, and if that’s the best that they can come up with they should probably reconsider, either having kids if they haven’t yet, or what they’re raising the kids for if they have.

[Mrs. Don-o]

I hesitate to speak for somebody else, but I suspect that Marie2 and I are both wondering whether you personally know anybody who actually had babies in order to indenture them as personal care-takers.

Your interpretation of the other poster's "avoiding lonely old age" argument seems so weirdly extreme (as if that's this poster seriously proposed this as the ONLY reason to have a child) and your response is so sustained and vehement, as if it had some passionate real-life impetus.

Just curious.

Take care.