[ARCHIVED THREAD] - Kids (Page 1 of 4)
Posted: 1/30/2011 12:52:21 PM EDT
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What are your feelings about pro-creation? |
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It's a great way to kill time.
Seriously, I have no problem with my kids growing up during this time. It's a great time to teach young kids about freedm and liberty. They may, or may not, live with the freedoms we enjoy. That is a decision we are making everyday. |
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I didn't want kids until I had them, and now I can say without reservation that it's the best thing ever This. But I also don't push my posistion on others nor do I fall into the "no kids = selfish" crowd. +1 except I always wanted them. I would have had a bakers dozen if I could have, but I'm not a brood mare. I'm happy with the three I have and I would adopt more if I could, but I won't do it unless I could do it right. It makes me sick to see the front page of trash magazines with Elton John and his lover with a tiny baby. He has the money to care for a child, but not the love to know he is not best for one. |
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Quoted: What are your feelings about pro-creation? I believe it is what we were created for besides knowing and walking with the Creator. It is a difficult time and crazy world to bring them into but it they are a gift from God nonetheless. We have one blessing of a 21 year old son who's away at college now and we sadly lost two at birth but we'll meet them later. |
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I will have a daughter in a month. I am excited but nervous Congrats! It will be fine. Don't freak out if you don't feel the bond right away, lots of Dads don't really bond until later when the personality starts to emerge. Caring for infants isn't that hard. Forget everything else, get a good infant carseat and a big box of diapers, if you're breast-feeding that's pretty much all you need other than maybe an infant book to put your mind at ease. |
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24, single, and planning on getting sterilized in the not-too-distant future.
I hate the little bastards. Every time I'm around one of the squawling little brats I keep hoping they'll run into something and fall over. I don't like the sounds they make, the way they smell, how useless and helpless they are, what a drag and a drain they are on the financial and personal freedom of their parents. Simply having created a life doesn't mean its worthy of love, and I could NEVER love any offspring I had because of the way they stole my freedom. Even when children are doing things I know that intellectually I should find cute, I can't stand them and don't understand the people who can. Further, their introduction into a marriage destroys the closeness of the parents and loads an additional chamber or two in the Russian Roulette revolver of divorce for men. I prefer rats to children. That said, some 18yo girls look nice. |
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I simply cannot see bringing a child into THIS world, when every day I wake up and turn on the tv wondering "Well, is DC burning today?" or "Are the ghetto goblins rioting in town today?"
No, cannot do it. 20 years ago sure, but today I cannot see putting a child in a position of "Ok son/daughter, I am gonna send a few rounds toward them to distract them, when I do I want you to run to X and provide cover fire for me" |
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I couldn't vote because my true feelings on this subject are more complex than simply "yes/no" answers.
I currently have no children. In some ways I like that & others I don't. On the one hand, children would be a SEVERE financial cost & logicly, it's best to wait. Plus there's the intense fear that I wouldn't do it right & raise some monsterous creature like those Ghetto Goblins in this thread*. 
Plus I know that most women these days are strange. You may marry a wonderful lady & then a few years later she morphs into manipulative bitch that sleeps around on you, lies to you, gets your guns siezed & tries to take the kids away from you entirely leaving you peniless & heartbroken. 
On the other hand, I do love children. I often daydream about teaching a little one about cards/shooting/reading to them/etc. Everytime I see a child in a store, I smile & wave. 
I'd like a family of my own, but in the final analysis, I just don't know if I should. 
* http://www.ar15.com/forums/topic.html?b=1&f=5&t=1143390 |
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Yeah, I do want kids, but I'm not picky that they be my biological offspring. As my significant other has a phobia about being pregnant (don't ask), we won't be having our own. Once I get settled into a better paying gig, we're adopting. Probably going to take in troubled teenagers from foster care. And before anyone tells me about the hell that will be, I know, I know, we're fully aware. My SO worked for the DA putting away child molesters and abusive parents, so she saw all that crap first hand. We're still going to do it. Somebody has to. But if the SO would let me, I'd knock her up tonight. |
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I simply cannot see bringing a child into THIS world, when every day I wake up and turn on the tv wondering "Well, is DC burning today?" or "Are the ghetto goblins rioting in town today?" No, cannot do it. 20 years ago sure, but today I cannot see putting a child in a position of "Ok son/daughter, I am gonna send a few rounds toward them to distract them, when I do I want you to run to X and provide cover fire for me" When I was born we were all going to die in the nuclear winter. The world is and always has been an unpredictable and dangerous place, but I'd rather raise kids in the USA today than any other time and place in history. The opportunities kids have today and the tools we have as parents are astounding. |
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Hello no. It's a huge gamble with the odds not in your favor of having a fucked up kid. I've seen a ton of horror stories. I don't think that I'm that much of a fuck up and my dad always hints that he wishes he never had kids. I've got a cousin who was adopted from South Korea. My relatives spent many years and way over 50K to get him. He is only 16 and has been in rehab three times, arrested a bunch, charged with a few felonies, and thrown out of school. Apparently throwing out the idea of leaving him at the S. Korean embassy during Thanksgiving dinner is not funny. |
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I live a life that is conductive not to have kids.
Long story short (though that is one heck of a story). when you don't have an office and your personal library consists of books such as "Practical Homicide Investigation" and "Sex-Related Homicide and Death Investigation", among others, this is not the kind of household to have children in. ___________________________________________ ("I can't have a baby because I have a 12:30 lunch meeting!"––J. C. Wyatt, (w,stte), "Baby Boom") |
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24, single, and planning on getting sterilized in the not-too-distant future. I hate the little bastards. Every time I'm around one of the squawling little brats I keep hoping they'll run into something and fall over. I don't like the sounds they make, the way they smell, how useless and helpless they are, what a drag and a drain they are on the financial and personal freedom of their parents. Simply having created a life doesn't mean its worthy of love, and I could NEVER love any offspring I had because of the way they stole my freedom. Even when children are doing things I know that intellectually I should find cute, I can't stand them and don't understand the people who can. Further, their introduction into a marriage destroys the closeness of the parents and loads an additional chamber or two in the Russian Roulette revolver of divorce for men. I prefer rats to children. That said, some 18yo girls look nice. Yeah, you seem pretty stable. |
if your ancestors were too tied up with their bull shit toys and hobbies (which they didn't have many or the time for many because they were too busy eking out a living and future) none of your asses would even have been born to ponder this deep question, while you surf Arfcom from your Iphone. having studied many, many old census forms from 1800-1950, the birth rates are way down, not even sustaining American families. If you and your wife only have 2 kids, then you are only replacing yourselves Don't worry though, our friends from Mexico are more than happy to roll up in here and knock the back out their wives and procreate all over, replacing our selfish asses. and as far as the "won't bring a kid into this world bunch" What about your ancestors that had kids during the Dark Ages, Civil War, Great Depression, and WW2"? They had kids in very troubling times and if they hadn't, you would not be here now. |
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if your ancestors were too tied up with their bull shit toys and hobbies (which they didn't have many or the time for many because they were too busy eking out a living and future) none of your asses would even have been born to ponder this deep question, while you surf Arfcom from your Iphone.
having studied many, many old census forms from 1800-1950, the birth rates are way down, not even sustaining American families. If you and your wife only have 2 kids, then you are only replacing yourselves Don't worry though, our friends from Mexico are more than happy to roll up in here and knock the back out their wives and procreate all over, replacing our selfish asses. and as far as the "won't bring a kid into this world bunch" What about your ancestors that had kids during the Dark Ages, Civil War, Great Depression, and WW2"? They had kids in very troubling times and if they hadn't, you would not be here now. Yeah, and if I hadn't been born, I wouldn't be around to give a shit about that, and the kids I'm not going to have won't be around to care, either. I'll almost certainly be dead before this country gets bred out of existence, and ideally I won't have any kids around to experience that, so... |
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Our kids are the best thing that ever happened to us. I can't imagine life without them. They make everything we do 100 times more special than it would be without them.
I do feel that if you are going to have kids, you need to be involved in their lives––-leaving them to be raised by the school system and day care isn't being a parent, it's being a sperm-donor. 
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