Why Would Anyone Have Kids?

**Byzantine Prince** · 06-29-2005, 18:09

=PanzerJager
I certainly wouldnt be a good parent, but I do understand a little better why others choose to have children.
You're too young to be a parent. If you had kids now you wouldn't have any fun in life. Oh and you wouldn't post here as much because the real world would be too demnding.

Its not such a crazy idea afterall.
People change over time or even experiences. One year ago I was a completely different person. Hell yesterday I was a different person. Tommorow=?

**The Scourge** · 06-29-2005, 18:41

Originally Posted by English assassin

Also I now feel part of something bigger, in a way that is hard to describe. You feel closer to all the people who have lived before and all the people who will come after, and see yourself as just a link in the chain not as the summit of human existence.

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I like that .

**PanzerJaeger** · 06-29-2005, 19:23

So you have a ready supply of high-potential organ donors for your old age.

People change over time or even experiences. One year ago I was a completely different person. Hell yesterday I was a different person. Tommorow=?

A NeoCon! Get in while its hot man, all the cool people are doing it..

**UglyandHasty** · 06-29-2005, 19:59

Thanks G

Tim, i saw a pick of Mary M. already

Nice girl !

**Goofball** · 06-29-2005, 22:58

There was a study released in Canada yesterday that ties the fact that our property crime rate is down by over 20% over the last ten years to the fact that the 15 to 24 year-old demographic is much smaller now than it was then due to declining birth rates in Canada.

There you have it:

We should all stop having kids, they only increase the crime rate.

**PanzerJaeger** · 06-29-2005, 23:14

See, im sacrificing for the civic good.

**Big King Sanctaphrax** · 06-29-2005, 23:59

Originally Posted by Steppe Merc

I always wondered the same thing PJ, so it's not just you.

My main thing was that I can't stand most little kids, as most of the ones running around are loud, smelly and obnixous...

Yep, that's my problem too. I just find kids unpleasant, boring and a chore to be around. I imagine if I met ten year-old me, I'd hate him.

I can't get over how ugly they are as babies, either.

**Steppe Merc** · 06-30-2005, 00:06

Exactly. If I met myself at almost any age before around sophmore year I'd hate myself, because I was such a loser. I also don't have too many little cousins or, mainly older ones, so it's not like I know many little kids that I care for.
I guess most of the kids are so annoying because their parent's can't control them. I also end up yelling at little kids in the movie theater or in the restraunt to shut up, which sort of makes me look heartless... oh well.

**kiwitt** · 06-30-2005, 00:20

I come from a "family" (and I use that word lightly as it was broken three times), by parents who thought more about themselves than us. One parent thought it was good for me, that I got whacked around the head by my stepfather (who she eventually divorced - due to domestic violence), because I made the coffee wrong, (I also got shot at and hit, because he thought it was funny to his friends). Another thought it was a good thing to leave us and go to another country (and have more kids) and abandon us with the other for the rest of our childhood & teenage lives (then subsequently divorced that one and abandoned them as well ... some even went to prison)

I resolved that, I would never have children unless I could provide a stable (own home) and loving a environment. Due to our careers, I found myself and my wife moving from city to city with promotions and redundancies, new employers, etc. When things seemed to eventually settle down, we were too old to consider them.

We now have what we call "Rent-a-Kids", from our brothers and sisters. We spoil them and give them our love and have resolved that should anything happen to us in the future we will give our estate to them in "trust" until they are 21.

Therefore if you decide to have kids, make sure you can provide a stable and loving environment to watch them grow and enjoy them and the rewards you get will far outweigh any costs of money and time spent otherwise they will end up as "cynical" and self-interested as me.

**Evil_Maniac From Mars** · 06-30-2005, 03:21

The university thing is easy. Put a bit of cash in a fund before the kid is born, and add a bit every year or so. My Dad started with about 100 bucks or so in my university fund. He's at over 70 000 Canadian now.

**bmolsson** · 06-30-2005, 03:49

Originally Posted by Gawain of Orkeny

Do they all have the same mother ? You do have a harem do you not?

Sure, a man got to do what a man got to do....

**Big_John** · 06-30-2005, 04:01

from a biological perspective, one would have children because that is, in essence, what we are designed to do. practically, your children are vessels for your genes. your individual nature can be, in some sense, carried forth into the future long after you are dead. why should anyone want to have their genes competing in the pools of the future? that depends on the person, i suppose.

personally, i don't know if i want kids or not. i'm not an especially responsible guy.

**KafirChobee** · 06-30-2005, 06:14

Originally Posted by PanzerJager

Why did the parents on the board choose to have kids, and why do the others who want kids want them?

I will never have kids ....etc .

Why did I sigh with relief when I saw this?

**Lemur** · 07-02-2010, 00:45

Thread necromancy! But in a good cause! There's a whole string of articles/blog posts on the pros and cons of having kids, and I could think of no better place to put them. To wit:

The case against happiness

The breeder's cup

Children and happiness

Reasons not to have more

Case against good parenting

Parental happiness overrated

**Sasaki Kojiro** · 07-02-2010, 01:05

Yeah, it seems like a huge gamble to me. They aren't little blank slates.

**Megas Methuselah** · 07-02-2010, 02:15

Because...

WE DON'T DIE, WE MULTIPLY!!!!!

History has proven that, and is continuing to do so. By 2045, more than 1/3 of Saskatchewan and Manitoba will be Aboriginal. We are not a mere footnote in history, my brothers.

**seireikhaan** · 07-02-2010, 02:51

Hmm. Part of me wants, some day, to have a kid or two. Probably so I could give them things I didn't have- I didn't get a car at 16, didn't get most of the nice luxuries my friends did, and lived most of my childhood with my dad in whichever apartment he was in at the time, spending most of my time by myself since he had to work two jobs to pay the bills. That part of me wants said future children to grow up less cynical, more friendly and warm. But then, my cynical, arrogant, and somewhat jealous nature looks to all the kids I knew in high school who didn't have a care in the world- dad earning plenty of income, mother free to stay home and care for the children, if she so desired, all their wants and needs desired- and declare them, on a 95% rate to be unfit people.

So I dunno, I guess is what I'm saying. Either way, its for a later time in life.

**Viking Prince** · 07-02-2010, 07:08

Why does a writer toil to create the great novel? Why does a painter strive for the masterpiece? We are by nature a creative species desiring for some sense of immortality. We are happiest when we are the most challanged in our creative endevors. Thus we have children because the process makes us happy and is some sense immortal.

**Hax** · 07-02-2010, 07:30

History has proven that, and is continuing to do so. By 2045, more than 1/3 of Saskatchewan and Manitoba will be Aboriginal. We are not a mere footnote in history, my brothers.

Yes, okay, fine! For the love of God, man, what are you trying to convince us of? Also, isn't there a contradiction in saying that in 2045 1/3rd of the people living there will be aboriginals? In my opinion, anyone born and raised in a country is an aboriginal.

**Andres** · 07-02-2010, 09:24

Great timing Lemur. You simply had to resurrect this thread, now, hmmm....

**Philippus Flavius Homovallumus** · 07-02-2010, 09:26

Originally Posted by Megas Methuselah

Because...

WE DON'T DIE, WE MULTIPLY!!!!!

History has proven that, and is continuing to do so. By 2045, more than 1/3 of Saskatchewan and Manitoba will be Aboriginal. We are not a mere footnote in history, my brothers.

If you say so, you do know that 73.5% of statistics are misleading though?

**Vladimir** · 07-02-2010, 12:48

For the magazines?

Originally Posted by Lemur

I think the real question is, can you get it as a package deal with some other mags? 'Cause I think between the AQ monthly and, say, NAMBLA Bulletin, I could be real popular with my neighbors.

**rory_20_uk** · 07-02-2010, 13:03

UNless you have a child, you don't really understand.

My son is the only thing I love unconditionally, and would do anything for I would cheerfully put his happiness above my own. I would view life as pointless without children.

Money is a tool, not an end. Kids do require a lot of money. But what point is money sitting in the bank account?

**Don Corleone** · 07-02-2010, 13:07

Wow, and here I thought a bunch of ghosts had come back to the Org. What would have really nailed it would have been resurrecting it on Father's Day.

**Cute Wolf** · 07-02-2010, 13:12

yeah, any good kids will care for their parents in the old age... I wonder what PJ feels when he post that thread... 5 years ago...

*. Did he allready have some kids running arround now?

**Rhyfelwyr** · 07-02-2010, 17:47

Took me a while to realise the thread date. It was surreal watching Tribesman reply so civily to PJ, without uttering the word bollox once!

Since PJ's still around, I'll give my thoughts on the OP. At first I would have been very much against having kids, but now I'm not so sure, I'm not the type of person that is going to want to travel the world or use my cash to live in luxury instead. Anyway, I don't think it's as bad as the OP makes out.