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Showing Original Post only (View all)Are you planning to have children (procreate)? [View all]
Times like these and all. I'm just inherently pessimistic. I guess I could assume I'll raise do-gooders who work to improve the lives of others. But I could equally assume that all kinds of bad could befall them, debt being just one for instance. I'm old enough to have escaped the debt monster, mostly because I'm a single male who's never married or had children. But could my children be so fortunate? Certainly debt isn't the only consideration. I ask this because a few years ago my best friend married a woman with an 8 year old. It wasn't long before he stopped paying attention to politics and current events. His world view was becoming "Disneyfied". His wife is an eternal optimist and it occurred to me that you have to live in a protective bubble to be a parent more than ever.