Just another reason...I don't want kids

[stromboli]

I have thought about a vasectomy, but honestly I am way too scared of letting people with sharp objects near my ball sack.

Not that bad. Had a vasectomy after my third child. Well worth what little pain you deal with, for maybe a week at most, and then only occasionally. Having sex and not needing a condom is very nice.

[Youssuf Ramadan]

I never really wanted them... then I was a teacher for a while and realised that I definitely never wanted them....

[AllPurposeAtheist]

You all must have had extraordinarily boring childhoods.. We did the same thing as kids and worse. The victims jumped out of their cars to chase our sorry asses down and coerced confessions in front of witnesses..
Someday you'll be 80 with no grown offspring to give a shit.. Sounds lonely as hell, but whatever.. I love my kids..

[pitbullmama]

I must have lucked out cause I ended up with some really good one. Not for everyone though.

[Colanth]

I don't blame the kids for what they did - where the hell were their parents?  (Not that night - every night since they were born?)  Idjits think that being a parent is a one-off deal, have 'em (or create 'em) and you're done.  I guess you can't expect much from people who think that they have a magical invisible friend up in the sky.

[wolf39us]

You all must have had extraordinarily boring childhoods.. We did the same thing as kids and worse. The victims jumped out of their cars to chase our sorry asses down and coerced confessions in front of witnesses..
Someday you'll be 80 with no grown offspring to give a shit.. Sounds lonely as hell, but whatever.. I love my kids..

Wrong, I did no such thing.

Having children is NOT a guarantee of company in old age...  Take a trip to an assisted living facility and show me all of this attention that these older folks are getting from their offspring.  

Being childfree has it's pros and it's cons, it merely depends on what YOU consider to be a pro or a con.  To me, there ARE no pros to having children AT ALL.

[Thumpalumpacus]

Glad I raised my son better.

[hrdlr110]

Not to lump us all together, but it would seem, from the small sampling in this thread, that if atheism ever becomes the new world order, our species is destined for extinction! If it came down to only two belief systems on the planet - the Mormons had better be the other!

[hrdlr110]

One belief, one non-belief.......oops!

[Aletheia]

Not to lump us all together, but it would seem, from the small sampling in this thread, that if atheism ever becomes the new world order, our species is destined for extinction! If it came down to only two belief systems on the planet - the Mormons had better be the other!

Nah. There are plenty of atheists who enjoy being parents and do invest considerable time and effort into raising their children according to tenets of the scientific method, follow the teachings of Paul & Elder's Model of Critical Thinking, and always go to Pastafarian (or Invisible Pink Unicorn) Church every Tuesday after school.

I'm not particularly inclined to having children, but that probably has more to do with a not-so-child friendly financial situation, the fact that I live in the Bible Belt, and not liking the idea of pregnancy (reminds me of the movie Aliens for some reason). I typically do not like other people's children, but when I do find one that I happen to like, I don't mind their company so much and make for a pretty good babysitter.

I would hate for any spawn of mine to end up like some of these hellions I see around here. It does help me to empathize with those species of animals who occasionally eat their own young.

[Plu]

I don't blame the kids for what they did - where the hell were their parents?  (Not that night - every night since they were born?)  Idjits think that being a parent is a one-off deal, have 'em (or create 'em) and you're done.  I guess you can't expect much from people who think that they have a magical invisible friend up in the sky.

This

Glad I raised my son better.

Also this.


If mine ever goes up and pulls shit like that, all hell will break loose. At the very least she'll be cleaning up that whole mess with her bare hands.

[Youssuf Ramadan]

I think if religion died on its ass then maybe more people would be willing to bring children into a world without the strife that religion can often bring to society.

Having children is no guarantor of company in old age. Plus.... I know that some people in my 'hood have children because they think that the kids will bail them out when they are old and skint... that doesn't strike me as a particularly ethical reason to have them.... in my opinion people ought to have children for what they can do for the children, not what the children can do for them.

Some want kids, some don't.  There's nothing intrinsically right or wrong about either.  The population boom on our planet suggests that human extinction isn't much to worry about.  :P

[Jason78]

You're better than me!! I would've dragged their little asses all over the neighborhood looking for their parents..!!!

I might have taken one or two of them and not returned them until their parents had paid for my car.

Nothing makes a parent sharpen up their act faster than a little kidnapping.

[Jason78]

You all must have had extraordinarily boring childhoods.. We did the same thing as kids and worse. The victims jumped out of their cars to chase our sorry asses down and coerced confessions in front of witnesses..
Someday you'll be 80 with no grown offspring to give a shit.. Sounds lonely as hell, but whatever.. I love my kids..

Yeah, but if an adult does that nowadays, you'd be up in front of a judge faster than you could say child endangerment.

[Youssuf Ramadan]

You all must have had extraordinarily boring childhoods.. We did the same thing as kids and worse. The victims jumped out of their cars to chase our sorry asses down and coerced confessions in front of witnesses..
Someday you'll be 80 with no grown offspring to give a shit.. Sounds lonely as hell, but whatever.. I love my kids..

Yeah, but if an adult does that nowadays, you'd be up in front of a judge faster than you could say child endangerment.

Yep... and all the kid has to say is "He touched my ass" and you're on the sex offender's register too. Social pariahship here we come...