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What's So Terrible About Kids?

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de_la_Nae:
I like children!

Like hell I want any of my own though. I'll probably be sterile anyway before too long for unrelated reasons, so...

Fatalism aside there's no way I'll ever ever EEEVVVEEEERRR want to actively seek a child for myself while being on my own. If/when I have vaguely stable companionship it can be on the table. Maybe adoption, because fuck my genes.

Edit: I've helped raise baby/toddler/child cousins. I have some experience across the board with all the lovely day-to-day stuff in caring for a human child. I'm sure that it being 'my own' would change my opinion a little, but that knowledge does not change my opinion enough at this time.


--- Quote from: lottie on 03 Jan 2013, 11:47 ---It just seems like this is absurdly insular existence.

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No worries. I don't understand why someone would want more than one or two kids tops, seems like an absurdly stressful existence that would only lead to neglect and abuse, but some people seem to pull it off. So whatever I guess.


--- Quote from: Is it cold in here? on 03 Jan 2013, 10:26 ---Some people have a neurological need for the structure and predictability that children are so well designed for destroying.

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^^^^

idontunderstand:
Carl-E: Yeah, that's a better way of putting it. As a person I'm generally trying to keep my options open, not getting too radical. Maybe that just means I'm a scared of changing or something. But it's the way I am.

And I completely respect that anyone wouldn't want to have children, I eh just don't get it. But I don't have to.

ackblom12:
If when I had insurance, the company had deemed vasectomys to be worthy of covering, I absolutely would have gotten one in a goddamn heartbeat. Still would.

I realize no one here is saying this, but the attitude that was brought up earlier, that not having children was selfish, I find hilarious considering how incredibly selfish the choice to have children can be. Maintaining your family legacy, having immortality in some fashion, assuming you raising a child will make the world a better place, to have an accessory, to do God's work etc etc.

I also don't understand thinking that stories about children being gross are gross though. This may be colored a bit by having slaughtered animals and helping raise several nieces and nephews. Maybe with a bit of my modification fascination added as well. Children ARE gross, but the human body is pretty gross in general. Gross and fascinating.

Carl-E:
Like I said, it's only entertaining when the people listening are squickable. 

You, sir, are far from squickable! 

Barmymoo:
idontunderstand, women at least can have health issues which guarantee that having children is out the question. I have a friend whose uterus is backwards, for instance (or it was - I think she's had it removed now). If she bore the child she found she was carrying at sixteen, she would have died. That isn't a situation for optimism, it's a situation for termination and hysterectomy.

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