Does anybody not want to get married and have children?

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<p>I don’t want children and have never wanted children. Even as a young girl, I remember my disgust at being given baby dolls. (You fed them bottles of water and then they “peed.” Toys that pee on you . . . are just not right.) My sister has many children and I enjoy being around them. But you know what’s best about being an aunt? Whenever the kids start acting up or throwing a tantrum, you just point them straight back at their parents and leave.</p>

<p>For the record, I have cats and owning them is less work than even babysitting children, let alone having your own kids. They’re boy cats, but don’t mark at all since they were neutered before puberty.</p>

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<p>I’d rather have a dog</p>

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<p>Children? I want children pretty badly, actually. Why? To clone me, of course. Improving on perfection is awfully hard, but if there’s anyone who can do it, I can.</p>

<p>;)</p>

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<p>I can’t wait for the chance to embarrass a younger version of myself in front of his friends.</p>

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<p>^ I think that is the sole reason to ever procreate. I can’t wait to pick up my kid from school wearing rollers in my hair, some boxers I found on the freeway and a pair of ragged bunny slippers while puffing a cigar and screaming at my eighth husband to bring little Jimmy’s big boy diapers because it looks like he’s ****ed himself again.</p>

<p>Oh, I can’t wait.</p>

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<p>Can’t wait to do some serious brainwashing.</p>

<p>My child must love lesbian folk music, Van Morrison, crossword puzzles, Keith Olbermann, sushi, beer, etc.</p>

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<p>to akhman</p>

<p>I totally agree with AUlost chick. Cats are the best and mine cat is 15 years old and he is very healthy and does NOT pee on me or anything else but his litter box. I want children but I recognize that my reasons are not good and rather selfish and therefore I have decided not to have children but I do want two cats and MAYBE a dog.</p>

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<p>I love Van Morrison. The indigo girls I could take or leave. Sushi, beer-yes.</p>

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<p>Anybody else think that sushi is absolutely delicious?</p>

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<p>me</p>

<p>^10char</p>

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<p>I absolutely, and have always wanted to get married and have children. I love children, and they seem to love me. And the idea of falling in love with the right person, and growing old together is exciting to me. Maybe it’s because I don’t like the idea of being alone for the rest of my life. I want someone to love me unconditionally too. =]</p>

<p>I’ve been able to witness some amazingly beautiful mairrages, where the couple was really and truly in love. My parents are still together, but my dad was divorced once. I think that the divorce rate is so high today is because either, people don’t fully think it through before they get married, or because people don’t try hard enough once they ARE married. It’s people’s obsession with instant gratification.</p>

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<p>Oh I don’t know, the fact that I could honestly receive the same comments regarding children from a 14 year old. You post your opinions, others will post there’s… we all know how forums work kiddo.</p>

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<p>I would never have biological children. I have bad genes.</p>

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<p>When I told my cousin, “Now I wouldn’t mind having children.” after playing with her baby girl, she said, “Trust me, you don’t.” then said that raising babies looks harder than it seems.
The baby liked me though, she kept following me. Babies like me for some reason. My mom is glad I was was good with my cousin’s baby because my cousin was good with me as a baby.
My feelings want me to have children, but my logic says not to.</p>

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<p>^ That reminds me when I just moved into my new apartment and my mother brought one of her friends over, who brought her daughter who was maybe seven months old. Somewhere during this time period, the friend picked up the daughter and almost dropped her and all I thought about was that this kid’s head is going to break my brand new coffee table and bleed all over my new rug.</p>

<p>I suspect I wouldn’t do well with babies.</p>

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<p>Blech. Babies. Getting rid of my sharp-edged furniture and buying those things to make drawers baby-proof is just too much work.</p>

<p>But ask me again in 10 years when my biological clock is ticking.</p>

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<p>I’ve decided that if I ever do have a kid, it will definitely be through adoption. The kind of adoption where you get a kid from an orphanage or foster system. There’s so many kids out there who don’t have anyone who loves them, and would probably appreciate me much more than would my own biological child (although of course that’s not the sole reason to adopt). Not to mention that I don’t want to go through pregnancy, childbirth and babycare. Why go through all that when I don’t want to and when there’s kids who need adopting, right?</p>

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<p>If I DID have kids, my explanations to their questions would be based wholly on those of Calvin’s dad in “Calvin and Hobbes.”</p>

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<p>Probably it is fortunate for everyone that I don’t want children.</p>

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<p>Tehehehe.
This thread needs spark.
I"m hoping for an AUlc vs Gstein debate. LOL</p>

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<p>People who want kids aren’t necessarily going to be good parents. There should be a screening process lol.</p>