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What's So Terrible About Kids?

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Barmymoo:

--- Quote from: Carl-E on 04 Jan 2013, 08:15 ---

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That really works well when they are smaller and weaker than you.  There comes a point when they are not...

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Oh sure, I'm talking about toddlers here. Once you hit the stage where they're bigger than you, or just nearly as big, then new tactics are better. Conveniently, the too-big-to-carry stage generally coincides with the old-enough-to-reason-abstractly stage, and things like curfews and loss of privileges actually work. You tell a two year old "if you do x, you won't get y" and they'll do x, and then scream and scream for y.

sitnspin:
Parenting: The only job you're not allowed to just quit.

Some people still do, though.

Others just slack off and pay others do the job for them.

nekowafer:
I don't want kids right now. I don't believe that I will ever want kids, but I know that things can change my mind about other things. I have had surgery to prevent me from ever birthing children. Voluntary and much-wanted surgery. But I do know that if I decide down the line that I want kids, I would much rather adopt. I have so many reasons for not wanting children in general, or not wanting them of my own blood, at the least. Most have been listed here already.

But it really doesn't matter. Who cares why someone else doesn't want kids? The fact is that they don't. There will be no lives ruined by the decision to not have kids. Some people will make up a reason just to have one beyond "I don't want them." Not having the money, while a perfectly valid reason, is one that many people use. Yes, this can change, overpopulation could, theoretically, change, all these reasons can change. But it is a decision that belongs to each person, and no one should forcefully try to change their mind about it.

So you think that someone's reason not to have kids is selfish - if that were actually the case, do you want a selfish person having a kid? Or immature, or any of the 'bad' things people say about those that decide against kids?

There's also no reason to get on anyone for their dislike of children. I like them up until the point that they can speak sentences; this is where I get nervous and can no longer deal with them confidently. That's my own decision, I certainly don't hate kids older than that, I just don't want to be around them, if I can avoid it.

ackblom12:
The only thing more irritating than /r/childfree is being asked to justify why you don't want children.

Carl-E:

--- Quote from: ackblom12 on 04 Jan 2013, 11:43 ---The only thing more irritating than /r/childfree is being asked to justify why you don't want children.

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I think I'd ask a person who stated that they don't want children why, but not to justify themselves - I'm just curious about their reasoning. 



Then I'll probably agree with them, because most reasons I've ever heard not to have kids are pretty damn good reasons. 








Didn't stop me, though. 

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