re: Feels great to not have kids

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26* haven’t live at home since 18

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if you don't live at home, where do you live? on the street?

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To be fair though, that could still happen even if you have kids.

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Yep

1)Kids are grown and can end up being total selfish assholes who don't care that you are rotting away in a home...now they finally have time to travel or are too busy with their kids to worry with you. Visiting you at least once a quarter is enough to still stay in your will right?

2)horrible events in life happen and your children don't outlive you and you are alone anyways

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Feels great to have kids, too.

I’ve been away on business all week. The thing I looked forward to the most was getting home to see my kids.

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I typically share this sentiment, but when I arrived home yesterday, I had to discipline all 3 of them for being disrespectful to their Momma.

Meanwhile, millions of food stamp mothers are filling up our local kindergartens.

Thanks for trying to keep society balanced and not getting taken over by the underclass and general underachievers.

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What's even worse is having kids that don't want to pull the plug when it's way past time. See it every day. We all know the patient is fricked from the get go, but the family is holding out hope they'll recover. They really don't know any better, but it sucks to see someone there just existing, while everything breaks down. Fortunately most of them are unconscious, but still.

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Same is true of kids born with severe, debilitating disabilities. I think it’s torture both in old age and young age. Living just to live is really no way to experience life.

As for kids. Don’t have them currently. Not at that stage having decided to switch careers very shortly after undergrad, thus needing more education that required a helluva lot of science my previous degree didn’t need.

I’d also prefer being financial stable before that kind of expensive decision.

Which is fine. I think the earth already has too many MFers anyway.

I may change my mind, meet the right woman that convinces me to have kids. Might not.

My stance is, though, is I’ve waited too long to father one, I’d look hard at adopting. There are, sadly, far too many kids stuck in that system.

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Plenty of reasons why having kids is a great experience. That reason is nowhere near that list.

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It's weird

I'm a selfish person, I want kids, and I've never once wanted kids because "wHo wiLL LoOk aFteR yOU wHeN Ur olD?

But it comes up in every discussion multiple times, so some people must actually think that way.

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I'm sorry that you'll never know the experience of bringing a person into this world and watching that person grow into what hopefully ends up being a pretty cool human.

I'm even more sorry that you are elated about it.

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He's in his mid 20s. He doesn't realize how much he'll probably change over the next 10-15 years. I know I didn't.

Until you have raised a kid, made every sacrifice imaginable in providing them a loving and supportive home , and then had them return the favor by SHITEING on you, you have not lived. Don’t you want the full range of human emotions , lol?

I feel that way about being pet free.

The best part about having kids is that one day you may get a chance to have grandkids. Nothing better.