Isn’t having children a blessing?

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And you are a stupid person for making this thread

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you child, you

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There are guys who travel to poor countries, seduce and impregnate local women, end then fly off never to return.

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There are guys who travel to poor countries, seduce and impregnate local women, end then fly off never to return.

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oh bullshite. What poor countries? Like what continent? How much are these assholes paying for airfare?

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You don't know love until you love your child

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This is a bit overdramatic. So the love of your parents doesn’t count? What about the love of your spouse? Sure, love for your child is unique and different. But loving your child doesn’t invalidate all other love you have or make them not important.

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This is a bit overdramatic. So the love of your parents doesn’t count? What about the love of your spouse?

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You don’t have kids and that’s okay. No, this isn’t overdramatic, they are just different kinds of love.

When folks tell you that you wouldn’t understand, based on your attempted comparisons, you really won’t be able to.

Not necessarily. Having too many is a curse for the parents and the children. What is the point bringing a soul into the world when you cannot take care of them financially.

People who are rich can have more kids because they can afford them and the poor should have less kids or no kids at all.

But in reality it is the rich who have less kids and the poor and the rural that have more and more and more ....

That's how welfare gets extended....not because of immigration...

My Dad told me at my brother’s funeral “a parent should never have to bury a child, we were meant to go first”. Has stuck with me for decades.

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You don’t have kids and that’s okay. No, this isn’t overdramatic, they are just different kinds of love. When folks tell you that you wouldn’t understand, based on your attempted comparisons, you really won’t be able to.

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I do have a kid. But going around and say “you don’t know love until you love your kid” is only half the story. Yes love for my kid is #1, but I also have #1A my wife, #2my dad. One day if I live long enough, maybe my grand kid will be #1.

It’s like if someone said “you don’t know love until you find your true love”. So before that no one else mattered?

So if I have another kid, my daughter and her sibling doesn’t have love? Or when my daughter grows up and marry her husband, is that not love?

Love comes in many forms, it changes over time. But it’s an addition, not a replacement, over the course of a lifetime.

I respect a parent’s love for their child.

But this board is never more pompous

Then when this topic comes up and those same parents self-righteously weigh-in.