<p>Well, my mother’s a physician and she had me ten years into her career and never stopped working - so I assume, yes.</p>
<p>It’s very plausible. There are plenty of working parents making a way for their children. It is not unusual, imo.</p>
<p>As for getting pregnant at 22, I refuse to.</p>
<p>4321234, I’m not quite that bad (although I don’t think pregnancy is this beautiful thing like some people seem to) but the thought of MYSELF being pregnant at all makes me queasy for sure. And I detest babies. I have no interest whatsoever in them, and they’re disgusting. Children are okay as long as they aren’t wild little heathens (which seems like a majority nowadays…)</p>
<p>^I can see you as some cranky old maid that yells at kids from her porch in 60 yrs</p>
<p>Lol, you say that as if it’s a bad thing. I’d rather be an old cat lady than old lady saddled with 4 kids, 19 grandkids, and 37 great-grandkids.
But anyway, there are also men who don’t want children too, you know… I’m not just some one-off random freak who doesn’t want kids, many people don’t. As I said before, I’m part of an online community of childfree people. It’s actually incredibly helpful for some people as there are often people, esp. women, who don’t realize that it’s even an option not to have kids (usually younger people who’ve been raised in certain environments).
If you do want kids, that’s great, I don’t care, as long as you don’t act like my choice not to is the freaking end of the world (trust me it happens).</p>
<p>actually I’m against having kids also…overpopulation’s gonna destroy the world :(</p>
<p>People should be free to choose whether they want kids or not.</p>
<p>However the tendency to have no or even fewer kids is a self correcting condition.
The future belongs to the best reproducers in a particular ecological niche, whether humans or tunafish.</p>
<p>As the birthrate among traditional European ethnic groups falls , they will supplanted by groups with more interest in procreation.</p>
<p>You can’t fool Mother Nature.</p>
<p>AUlostchick, I completely know how you feel!
I’m not exactly dead-set against getting married IF I find someone who is like a best friend, who I know for years and if it naturally evolves to the point of getting married. And if that ever does happen, I’m not completely opposed to having a kid or two. But if that ever happens I will be 30+ years old and honestly, I prefer being single and think I will likely want to stay that way. I’m not one of those people who daydream about falling in love and having tons of kids…when I babysit babies I feel drained after about 10 minutes. But there are people out there who act like I’m weird or there’s something wrong with me, or when I mention to a friend that I don’t anticipate on having kids they say “You know that will change right?”
And yes, it is sexist. Guys never get that kind of thing.</p>
<p>They take a swift trip down the stairs, on accident of course.</p>
<p>Aww someone else said it, if had just read the thread, I could have said something about a falcon punch or a rusty iron hanger instead. I hang my head in shame.</p>
<p>I don’t see why you’d use a rusty one, unless you’re trying to kill the baby by giving it tetanus (and yourself, in the process).</p>
<p>The obvious solution is the morning-after burrito "<a href="http://www.theonion.com/content/node/29938">http://www.theonion.com/content/node/29938</a>". Taco Bell’s ContraceptiMelt cleans out the womb like the rest of their food clears out your digestive tract.</p>
<p>I hope the “fall” posts were jokes.</p>
<p>Gone With the Wind gives the wrong impression. It is generally very hard to spontaneously abort from a fall.</p>
<p>Falling down stairs is likely to leave you pregnant (and paralyzed or at least with broken bones and some bruises).</p>
<p>The coat hanger thing is from the dark ages. A lot of people have worked hard to create a society where women are not driven to that exigency. </p>
<p>Seek the counsel of a medical professional.</p>
<p>
Biologically speaking, many women do get the urge to have children in their mid-late 20s or early 30s.</p>
<p>Rusty hangers make it more exciting. Do you die from tetanus…or do you live. Same reason people run through minefields.</p>
<p>fromthesouth, you have one dark, twisted sense of humor. we would be friends in real life :)</p>
<p>
…what people are you talking about?</p>
<p>maybe you’d end up on Maury…</p>
<p>Slight tangent. I’m not really thinking of kids, but if I were to have any, I wouldn’t have 14.</p>
<p>[Grandma:</a> Octuplets mom obsessed with having kids](<a href=“Yahoo News: Latest and Breaking News, Headlines, Live Updates, and More”>http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090131/ap_on_re_us/octuplets)</p>
<p>I saw on the news yesterday that she’s gotten some death threats. It’s weird, but I feel like this woman is selfish for giving birth to so many children when the world is so overpopulated. And it’s not like her genetics are so awesome that she has to spread them.</p>
<p>The real ethical transgression was committed by the fertility doctor.</p>
<p>What happens? You have some hard-life decisions ahead of you; and hopefully, decisons that can be made rationally.</p>