Hell yeah fam! Adoption all the way! If I ever get kiddos I am adopting and when they're ready I'm gonna help them figure out who their parents are and stuff.
My husband and I are planning the same thing, honestly we thought we're the only ones. We don't want to have our own children but would love to adopt few :) It's a nice feeling to know we're not only ones!
I’ve told myself for a number of years now that I don’t want children not only is it because the climates are becoming unliveable but also the economy! People are loosing jobs now a days and still want children! I know many people that can not afford a healthy lifestyle for themselves and still choose to have children, and not just one either. I can’t afford to take care of myself so why would I be selfish enough to burden a child’s life to make them feel underprivileged when they grow up and have to work even harder at that point just to make it by. People may say im selfish but I beg to differ.
I totally agree with everything you wrote. I also think society expectations push people towards having children as well. It seems every culture has an assumed life plan for people which must involve children for it to be worthwhile. I think a lot of people fall into this trap as they’re trained to think that this is the done thing and will lead to happiness, whether they truly wanted children or not.
............ I don't even know what to say. God, sometimes I actually regret living in this time. The world used to be brutal and tyrannical, and now it's just insane. There has to be a balance in everything. Not too much order, like there used to be, and not too much chaos like there is now. A middle ground between people being locked into traditional gender roles and the complete decimation of the family unit. I can't believe people are so polarized these days that common sense is being so often overriden by stubborn convictions.
@firmlee_grasspit any opinions, friend?
P.S. Also yeah, I know I kinda went off-topic, but i'm refering to the more general problem, rather than a single instance of such debate
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In my opinion, I find this reason to not have kids dramatic. I wouldn’t have kids because of safety concerns for them, such as human trafficking and the rise of unstable, unchecked, and unmedicated mental illness. I wouldn’t have kids for the lack of both privacy and personal freedoms. I wouldn’t have kids for the botched education systems. I wouldn’t have kids because everything is insane, as you had said...but solely for environmentalism? I don’t know. I still want kids, and I would love to build a nice future for them. I know they will be inheriting the Earth, and will continue the pursuit of whatever the hell is relevant at the time. And now onto the meat of this post, and my favorite part to comment on: how the hell can people preach the bottom paragraph? Are they serious? Do they know how passing down genes works? Just because your parents have an idea about the world, doesn’t mean you will. If I cut off my hand, it’s not like my son won’t have a hand because of it.
@firmlee_grasspit any opinions, friend?
P.S. Also yeah, I know I kinda went off-topic, but i'm refering to the more general problem, rather than a single instance of such debate