10 Good Reasons You May not Want to Have Kids

[Abaddon]

Any selfishness involved in having a child is negated by the amount of sacrifice required to care for it.


Unless you're a lazy parent.

 

[DorkyFresh]

Any selfishness involved in having a child is negated by the amount of sacrifice that's put into taking care for it.

fixed just cuz it's REQUIRED doesn't mean it makes selfish parents any less selfish...

 

[Abaddon]

I added the "unless your a lazy parent" part to take care of that.

 

[xwolverine2]

Any selfishness involved in having a child is negated by the amount of sacrifice required to care for it.


Unless you're a lazy parent.

everytime i watch a movie (besides anger) i feel so pityful towards the mother with a screaming baby that has to miss a great part of a movie to take the kid out.
plus she wasted money on his ticket.... and her own.

 

[DorkyFresh]

I added the "unless your a lazy parent" part to take care of that.

oh yeah...duh. sorry my brain's kinda fried...

 

[nosebleed.]

This attitude that you're being selfish if you don't want to procreate is hilariously wrong-headed.


If you're not sacrificing yourself, and your time, and your personal pleasure, for the welfare and survival of SOMEONE WHO DOESN'T EXIST, that is not "selfish".


What's truly selfish is when you bring another un-needed, unwanted LIFE into the world, CREATE it, out of nothing, creating another consciousness that will suffer so much throughout it's short/long life on this God-forsaken s***-hole of a planet, just because you want a little mixed clone of yourself and the person you wanted to have sex with, CREATING a creature to love you, mainly only because of it's position of complete dependence on you......so you can dress it, and make it do things.


Welcome to Bizarro World, 'cause the Selfish people are clearly, CLEARLY the people who create a human LIFE out of nothing just to gratify themselves.

X 8,000,000,000

This is truly an extreme and cynical statement IMO. I understand that you are trying to counter an argument that having a child is done for unselfish reasons...but who really looks at it that way? And if a person has that point of view when trying to conceive...then they clearly do not need to be a parent. I am going to throw my 2 cents in, so if your intention was to just rebut the other poster then ignore me.

You may find this hysterical/corny/fake/sappy (choose whatever sarcastic substitute you deem worthy) but my wife and I planned to have children to provide them love...I honestly don't believe that it once crossed my mind to have a child because I wanted to bring the world an 'un-needed, unwanted LIFE'. This might not have been directed toward parents who plan their families...but good can come out of any situation especially when it comes to children.

But back to my point, wifey and I honestly felt we had the passion and more than enough love between us to raise a child properly and have it prosper in this 'God-forsaken s***-hole of a planet'. I can feel people rolling their eyes at that...call me naive or whatever but I still feel that way.

Can you honestly tell me there are ANY unselfish acts in this world? Everything that a person does provides them some sort of gratification. Its a person's intentions and actions after the act of procreation that make them selfish or not, at least in my eyes.

I'm ranting and I didn't post this to get into an argument about who is right...because I'm a Wilhelm fan and I know that I am not intelligent enough to win that battle. Just throwing my 2 cents and hot air into the mix.

 

[blind_fury]

11. God loves teh ironic twist.

 

[Kritish]

That's the most self centered thing I've ever read

Isn't it selfish to have children because it makes your hormones feel good?
Especially considering that there's already too many people on the planet, and that we're estimated to grow to 9 billion by 2050?

 

[Speedball]

"Those reasons SUCK!"- Penny Robinson, Lost in Space

 

[blind_fury]

12. kidnap risk


She went away for the holidays
Said she's going to L.A.
But she never got there
She never got there
She never got there, they say

The KKK took my baby away
They took her away
Away from me
The KKK took my baby away
They took her away
Away from me

Now I don't know
Where my baby can be
They took her from me
They took her from me
I don't know
Where my baby can be
They took her from me
They took her from me

Ring me, ring me ring me
Up the President
And find out
Where my baby went
Ring me, ring me, ring me
Up the FBI
And find out if
My baby's alive
Yeah, yeah, yeah

o o o o o o
o o o o o o

She went away for the holidays

The KKK took my baby away

They took my girl
They took my baby away

 

[blind_fury]

somebody stop me! [/the mask]

 

[Riven]

I don't want kids because

1. I think the world is f**ked up beyond repair and it's horrid to inflict the future on innocent children.

2. The world IS as f**ked up beyond repair because there are too many people already.

3. I don't trust my genetic material.

4. I don't want to face the possibility that my own kids disappoint me.

5. I don't want to throw my own life away.


Selfish? Probably. On the other hand, I don't feel the world,
as messed up as it is, needs humanity any more than it needs any other harmful parasite, so I'm actually doing the planet AND my never-will-be-born child a big favor by denying it a chance of existence.

And I get a lot of time to devote to myself, my life-partner, my family and friends and the rest of the people already condemned to life on earth without having to change diapers, deal with teenage temper tantrums or worrying about college tuitions. A win-win situation if ever I saw one.

 

[blind_fury]

Marla Singer: A condom is the glass slipper for our generation. You slip one on when you meet a stranger. You dance all night, and then you throw it away. The condom, I mean, not the stranger.
Narrator: What?

 

[blind_fury]

3. I don't trust my genetic material.

This makes me one sad panda.

Tyler Durden: If you could fight anyone, who would you fight?
Narrator: I'd fight my boss, prob'ly.
Tyler Durden: Really.
Narrator: Yeah, why, who would you fight?
Tyler Durden: I'd fight my dad.
Narrator: I don't know my dad. I mean, I know him, but... he left when I was like six years old. Married this other woman, had some other kids. He like did this every six years, he goes to a new city and starts a new family.
Tyler Durden: ****er's setting up franchises.

 

[Hobgoblin]

I don't want kids because

1. I think the world is f**ked up beyond repair and it's horrid to inflict the future on innocent children.

2. The world IS as f**ked up beyond repair because there are too many people already.

3. I don't trust my genetic material.

4. I don't want to face the possibility that my own kids disappoint me.

5. I don't want to throw my own life away.


Selfish? Probably. On the other hand, I don't feel the world,
as messed up as it is, needs humanity any more than it needs any other harmful parasite, so I'm actually doing the planet AND my never-will-be-born child a big favor by denying it a chance of existence.

And I get a lot of time to devote to myself, my life-partner, my family and friends and the rest of the people already condemned to life on earth without having to change diapers, deal with teenage temper tantrums or worrying about college tuitions. A win-win situation if ever I saw one.

Amen. Preach it brotha!

 

[Riven]

This makes me one sad panda.

And panda's are already very sad creatures. Though they're kinda like me: no force on earth can make them reproduce if they don't want to.

Pandas are okay by me.

 

[Speedball]

"I have had... enough... of YOU PEOPLE!"

 

[blind_fury]

And panda's are already very sad creatures. Though they're kinda like me: no force on earth can make them reproduce if they don't want to.

Pandas are okay by me.

yes, they/you will be missed.

 

[PLAS]

to be honest, 10, 15 years ago I would never have imagined myself being a parent
as a matter of fact, I loathed the fact that I was being the father of another human being 11 years ago
then my then-wife got preggers again.... with twins
then I hated myself, my life and everything that would relate to them
then, somehow, my kids took over my heart
I honestly can't imagine my life without my kids now, they are the very reason for which I do each and every thing in my life
be it teaching, playing, writing songs, you name it, they are part of me and I am part of them
call me corny or stupid or whatever, some people decide not to have children because they don't want more humans messing up the world, I decided that I was going to raise mine to be better people than I will ever be
will I be able to do so? I have no idea, but I'm making my best efforts
besides, there's nothing that compares to having your progeny tell you they love you
and we also get to chat through MSN, which is really cool

 

[blind_fury]

"It's mine!" t:

 

[Riven]

yes, they/you will be missed.

We're like the dodo! They've never been as popular since they've ceased to exist.

There's a strange kind of security in knowing you're going to be extinct one day...

SO LONG! AND THANKS FOR ALL THE FISH! ... AND BAMBOO!

 

[Kritish]

I hate Pandas...

 

[blind_fury]

We're like the dodo! They've never been as popular since they've ceased to exist.

There's a strange kind of security in knowing you're going to be extinct one day...

SO LONG! AND THANKS FOR ALL THE FISH! ... AND BAMBOO!

gogo dodo was my favorite character on tiny toons.

 

[blind_fury]

I hate Pandas...

predictable.

 

[SoulManX]

This makes me one sad panda.

Tyler Durden: If you could fight anyone, who would you fight?
Narrator: I'd fight my boss, prob'ly.
Tyler Durden: Really.
Narrator: Yeah, why, who would you fight?
Tyler Durden: I'd fight my dad.
Narrator: I don't know my dad. I mean, I know him, but... he left when I was like six years old. Married this other woman, had some other kids. He like did this every six years, he goes to a new city and starts a new family.
Tyler Durden: ****er's setting up franchises.

Ok that cracked me upt: