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In reply to the discussion: Are you planning to have children (procreate)? [View all]mythology
(9,527 posts)119. I don't intend to have kids
Partially because there's a lack of a woman willing to have them with me, but also I think I would personally be a bad parent. Both because I am the child of an abusive parent, but also I tend to be short tempered, don't like myself much and am very introverted (some of those traits may relate to the lack of a woman willing to have kids with me)
As for the world, I'm an optimist over the long term. Yes we do tend to suck in the short term, but change happens. And necessity is the mother of invention. Yes we'd be better off if we would deal with climate change now, but at some point even with the benefits we give to oil companies, it will be more cost effective to do something than ignore it.
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I am someone who has empathy for birth mothers and the life-long grief they often go through.
StevieM
Aug 2014
#102
"adoption agencies are often ruthless in their efforts to procure babies." Do you have a link
pnwmom
Aug 2014
#112
I think we all have an obligation to pass along knowledge we have pertaining to an injustice.
StevieM
Aug 2014
#129
Crisis pregnancy centers are pure evil. And they deliberately deceive the mother-to-be
StevieM
Aug 2014
#127
I provided the link to the for-profit agency because you raised doubt as to whether they truly exist
StevieM
Aug 2014
#131
I never said they didn't exist. You said that they were all after profits, and that isn't true.
pnwmom
Sep 2014
#135
I agree that there children who genuinely need homes....but the adoption industry doesn't focus
StevieM
Aug 2014
#133
I don't plan to raise children. Most children are wonderful, I like them but have no...
BlueJazz
Aug 2014
#6
It's interesting that people rarely seem to see their own decision to have children as
enough
Aug 2014
#31
I do think, though, we are getting farther away from generations of women who didn't have a choice
Iris
Aug 2014
#62
I'm a unicorn too, lol. I am childless, turned 59 in June & NEVER regretted it.
catbyte
Aug 2014
#92
Nope. Already have one, and having a teenager and a toddler at the same time sounds unpleasant.
LeftyMom
Aug 2014
#64
News to me. And I've got a teenager, and I've worked with kids, I guess I'd know.
LeftyMom
Aug 2014
#84
I intend to follow the evolutionary strategy of fathering hundreds of children...
Silent3
Aug 2014
#65
There are at-home methods you can utilize to influence the gender of the baby (eom)
StevieM
Aug 2014
#86
My friend and I used to see movies like "The Secret in Their Eyes"
WhaTHellsgoingonhere
Aug 2014
#105
No - The World Is Headed Toward Catabolic Collapse Through A Slow And Grinding Decline
cantbeserious
Aug 2014
#126