Would You Have Kids Again?

lol As a child do you remember if the thought ever come to you, 'When I'm as old as she is I'm not gonna be fat like her but be skinny'? :)
 

I never had kids...my first husband became very ill a year after we married and I nursed him for 11 years. Then, by the time I married Jesse, I was too old to consider having a child. My pet peeve is people who tell me how sorry they feel for me...as though being childless is some kind of dreadful condition that dooms me to be unfulfilled.
 
Autumn said:
I never had kids...my first husband became very ill a year after we married and I nursed him for 11 years. Then, by the time I married Jesse, I was too old to consider having a child. My pet peeve is people who tell me how sorry they feel for me...as though being childless is some kind of dreadful condition that dooms me to be unfulfilled.
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When I tell people I purposely never had kids and I'm still glad, some of them think there is something wrong with me...all the while their kids treat them badly.
 
Phoenix said:
When I tell people I purposely never had kids and I'm still glad, some of them think there is something wrong with me...all the while their kids treat them badly.
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Same here, although with me, it's not just some people I tell, it's everybody I've ever told has reacted that way. I've even had people frown at me and turn their backs on me. Seriously. And I swear, the next time I tell somebody I chose not to have the kids and she (it's always women, men never even ask if I had kids, they don't seem to care) says "Oh, so you hate kids, huh?", I'm going to say, "No, not all kids, just yours probably." Aw, not really, I sure feel like it sometimes, though. Maybe instead I'll say how I'm of the firm opinion that not everybody is cut out to have kids; neither of my parents & none of my step-parents were; and neither was I.
 
officerripley said:
Same here, although with me, it's not just some people I tell, it's everybody I've ever told has reacted that way. I've even had people frown at me and turn their backs on me. Seriously. And I swear, the next time I tell somebody I chose not to have the kids and she (it's always women, men never even ask if I had kids, they don't seem to care) says "Oh, so you hate kids, huh?", I'm going to say, "No, not all kids, just yours probably." Aw, not really, I sure feel like it sometimes, though. Maybe instead I'll say how I'm of the firm opinion that not everybody is cut out to have kids; neither of my parents & none of my step-parents were; and neither was I.
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You could send them to this web site about world population growth and say that at least you did not contribute to this, like they did. https://www.theworldcounts.com/chal...-the-planet/world-population-clock-live/story
 
officerripley said:
Great site, thanks, Phoenix. I have tried to talk to some of these people about population but around here, that usually gets you a sermon, sigh. :(
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It does here too. The thing is we knew about over population since the late 60s early 70s because of the Zero Population growth people. And now here we are eating outselves out of house and home and people are in denial about it. This is a finite planet with finite resources. We have no place else to go.
 
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