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Why do people have children?

I was talking to someone the other night when they straight up asked, "Why do you want to have kids?" I thought it was a stupid question by the somewhat bitter, single, 43 year old man I was talking...

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I look forward to replying from Atlanta later. Hopefully this thread has gotten even cooler by then.

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Eric the Red wrote: Young couples can greatly enjoy life and party-hearty when they don't have children. But older childless couples are just sad. What color is the sky in your fantasy land? I'll...

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So I was reminded of this thread by some of last night's posts and I went back to check it out. Very interesting takes throughout. I hadn't realized that a thread I started sprouted the "sidelines of...

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Timster96 wrote:I think no-kids guys probably get married because they fall in love, and also have in the back of their mind that a guy like 2Beez can quickly become 44 with a fat gut, a bald spot,...

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Eric the Red wrote: Obviously, there is no totally correct answer to this question, but in the United States the unplanned pregnancy rate has hovered around 48-50% for most of the past decade. So that...

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fortheloveofweeks wrote:So I was reminded of this thread by some of last night's posts and I went back to check it out. Very interesting takes throughout. I hadn't realized that a thread I started...

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When it's all said an done, we're still just animals.... people have kids for the exact same reason other animals do..... instinct.

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AbeFroman wrote:When it's all said an done, we're still just animals.... people have kids for the exact same reason other animals do..... instinct.I like to think I put a bit more thought into it than...

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Bearing crotchfruit is the height of vanity. But I'll probably have my own some day.

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giganticowl wrote:Bearing crotchfruit is the height of vanity. But I'll probably have my own some day.Narcissist.

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I'm still sidelining. I'm a sorry, sad sack of shit.

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Creating a family is probably the single most profound experience a person can have, but it comes at the expense of something else that's pretty profound: freedom.  I have one friend with a kid and...

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AirRaley wrote:giganticowl wrote:Bearing crotchfruit is the height of vanity. But I'll probably have my own some day.Narcissist.I always gotta do what the cool kids are doing.

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For my wife and I, it was always "when we have kids...", not "if we have kids". We both just had it in our life plan to be parents. We figured we'd have two kids, then maybe adopt one more. When...

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likewhoa123 wrote:Creating a family is probably the single most profound experience a person can have,  I dunno man, have you tried acid?

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About three weeks ago about ten minutes into our usual Sunday Facetime chat with our daughter and her family, our granddaughter chimes in, "Mommy has a baby in her tummy".  She really wasn't letting...

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A few of my posts in this thread were a year (to the day) before my son was born. We had already decided to try to have kids, so I was throwing some of that stuff out to be argumentative. As I posted...

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4thngoal wrote:I'm still sidelining. I'm a sorry, sad sack of shit.ETR Jr. looks to you as a father figure. 

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Eric the Red wrote:4thngoal wrote:I'm still sidelining. I'm a sorry, sad sack of shit.ETR Jr. looks to you as a father figure. Well, he needs someone.You know you can't set us up like that, ETR.

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