re: People who choose to not have kids

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However, something just seems "off" when a healthy, young adult espouses that they definitely aren't going to have kids and have no desire to have kids.

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Personally I think its refreshing to hear young people today take ownership of their selfishness. I mean these are not the kind of people who you'd want raising children anyway, not that most of them would if they did find themselves in that situation. They'd either abort the baby or at best be those types of hands off parents that think shipping them off the care programs and boarding schools to be someone else's bother is the best way to rear children.

I mean it's the sole reason the this country is migrating (Pun Intended) toward a "Hyphenated" culture. In 50 years there will be no more "Americans" everyone will be "filling the blank"-American.

I'm glad I won't be here.

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People who say they aren't having kids are basically saying everything their ancestors went through and ovecame to allow their existence were so that they could enjoy ~80 easy years watching Netflix, going to Whole Foods, and keeping up with what their friends are doing on Facebook. Thats what this whole thing we call reality has been about - its culmination is your weak little coddled life where you get to be happy and content without any responsibility but to make sure you stay happy and content. Your ancestors traversed oceans, survived the Black Plague, and killed others so you could watch Gilmore Girls and eat ice cream straight from the box.

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What if you want to travel the world and just do your own thing without the burden of raising a kid in this world?

Seems like the wrong people are choosing to not have kids.

This is how the terrorist will win.

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it's fine

I don't expect for most to agree with it

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The fact me and you agree, means it is a very logical thought process actually

"the best time to get pregnant is when you're a black teenager"

-Sarah Silverman

(Paraphrased)

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That was purely one example.

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Well it is a poor one.

People with kids travel the world all the time. They are just rich

Just say "I'm too poor to travel the world and have kids at the same time"

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Granted I'm a single 28 year old dude. But I don't really see the point of having children in the near future.

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I doubt many single 20something guys see the point in having children. That doesn't make you selfish. It makes you a normal 20something guy

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you seem to surround yourself with dysfunctional people

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I don't think you have to try... to surround yourself with those type of people. Anyone who has a kid playing sports will likely have to interact with those crazies. Hell, I only have a nephew I just going to some of his activities, I come across these people.

I've worked with dads who are completely obsessed with their sons playing baseball. They all think their kid will get a scholarship to play baseball at LSU. EVERY weekend.. During the Summer, Fall, and Spring.. I am sure Winter, if they have anything available.. They are on the road playing travel ball. I use to have a cube next to this dude's office.. All week long he would call parents to try talking their kid into playing with them in a tournament the upcoming weekend.

He would get furious because one kid one the team he put together left to go play on someone else's team. This guy was obsessed. He would have a team registered in tournaments all over the region (parts of La, texas, mississippi, alabama, etc). Each week he had to make sure he had enough players. He would bitch about how this parent would get pissed because he would only call for his son when other kids were not playing.. He would have to end up having to agree to pay for some players just to have enough players, but that was his life. Travel baseball. it was kind of sick,

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Do your kids hate you?


I would hate for my kids to hate me...Jesus man that sounds horrible

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Did you like your parents when you were a teenager? I didn't want to be anywhere around mine.