I’ll never understand married couple celebrating the fact that they have no kids. Look at all these fancy vacations we get!! Too bad your parents didn’t feel the same way. Enjoy your next trip to Tahiti. I’ll be back here contributing to the human race teaching my sons to read, ride their bikes, baseball, swimming...and yes soothing a skinned knee or taking an occasional trip to the ER. At least I’ll have a legacy other than a fancy photo album filled with pictures of me dancing with the flavor of the month savages....
“I’ll never understand married couple celebrating the fact that they have no kids. Look at all these fancy vacations we get!! Too bad your parents didn’t feel the same way. Enjoy your next trip to Tahiti. I’ll be back here contributing to the human race teaching my sons to read, ride their bikes, baseball, swimming...and yes soothing a skinned knee or taking an occasional trip to the ER. At least I’ll have a legacy other than a fancy photo album filled with pictures of me dancing with the flavor of the month savages....”
I’m with you. And with the coming collapse of the dollar, Social Security, and Medicare, it will sure be nice having people to look out for us as we age, just as we are doing now for our parents.
“I’ll never understand married couple celebrating the fact that they have no kids. Look at all these fancy vacations we get!! Too bad your parents didn’t feel the same way. Enjoy your next trip to Tahiti. I’ll be back here contributing to the human race teaching my sons to read, ride their bikes, baseball, swimming...and yes soothing a skinned knee or taking an occasional trip to the ER. At least I’ll have a legacy other than a fancy photo album filled with pictures of me dancing with the flavor of the month savages...”
I decided not to have kids because of the guys like the quarterback on my football team and my lab partner who were drafted, ripped from their homes and family, and killed during Tet. It seemed such a waste to spend so much love and energy to see your child ripped from your arms and destroyed.
I know my Grandmothers never got over knowing their sons were killed in awful conditions. One was cut in half by an MG 42 at age 18 in the battle of the Bulge, another in Normandy, another a POW in New Guinea who died at 33 from what ever happened to him - he never spoke about it, in fact he almost never spoke period, he just fell over dead one day. My father never, til the day he died, got over being shot down over the Himalayan mountains at age 18 - 3 times.
So I decided not to have kids for a variety of reasons. I did not want to invest in a kid who might grow up to be a dope smoking nymphomaniac, which seemed quite common in college in the 70’s and seems to have reach epidemic proportions today. Raised by strong, Christian families, but the dirty week and hormones just seem stronger than Christian will.
So good for you if you want to have kids. I’ll make a deal, I won’t asked you to pay for my life style if you don’t ask me to subsidize you kids education, health care, prison time, food stamps, etc., etc., Oh, wait! I already lost that bet. Damn, just tax me some more so more people can spawn all they want, no responsibility whatsoever.