For those of you who share my affliction, congrats and Godspeed.

Have three small girls, myself. Plan on one more.

I personally love parenting. I love my girls. But it isn't for everyone.

So... kids or no? Want some or more? ... all that stuff.

Parenting pro tip.... when distributing juice boxes, take a couple of drinks first. It keeps the kids from squeezing juice out on accident, and makes a great chaser for that shot of vodka you just took.

I have a stepson who is 14. Don't want any kids myself. I'd rather spend money on myself and have the freedom to do things alone with my wife that having small kids doesn't allow.

Kids suck. I wouldn't want to have my own kids either since they'll have my shitty genes, and probably end up as ugly, bitter, horrible, boring people that are miserable all the time. I'm doing my non-existent children a favour.

Single Dad, twin boys.
I'm not saying its ok to lie to kids, but I have a dog that can detect invisible monsters, so my kids don't have to be afraid of the dark.
Also they know how to change the toilet paper roll, but not flush the toilet.

I have two nieces and i love them very much. I always really enjoy seeing them. I like playing with them and teaching them stuff/educating them, giving them presents and trying to encourage them and praise them.
Of course i will also be mean and tease them lol

It's good because sometimes i dont see them very often or for a while and i guess i get to mostly just see the good side. I dont have the responsibility or the burden of parenthood.

I also have a nephew but i haven't really gotten the chance to get to know him very well.

I've never wanted kids. But sometimes being around my nieces makes me wonder. Now that iam in my mid thirties i do get the feeling that having kids is probably the only meaning of life. Well that and the whole love, companionship, marriage, own a home as well as have kids.
But i dont think that that stuff is for everyone. I probably stayed immature for too long because it was never something that i wanted.
I enjoy my free time and freedom but in recent times life dose feel kind of empty. I see people with kids as having more reason to get out of bed and go to work and everything because they have the responsibility to their kids and they're a good reason to do it all.
Plus i think having kids would(or should) make people care about their own well being more, as far as their health and everything.

But the whole get married, have kids, be a slave paying off your home, raise your kids, get treated like shit by them when they get rebellious and are teenagers, grow old, leave all your possessions to your kids, etc makes life seem kinda crap and pointless either way.. lol

But i guess if you never have kids, you will obviously never have grand kids as well. So it may end in loneliness.
Of course some people still get married and just chose to not have kids, they instead buy themselves nice things and a nicer home and travel all around the world all the time instead.

One thing i will add to the wall of text is, i feel annoyed at myself for contributing to the fall of the west. Iam adding to the declining birth rates.
Iam contributing to the fall of the white race and aiding the Muslim take over..

Wow, this post went in a weird direction at the end
I wouldn't worry about birth rates too much, any society that reaches the levels of prosperity the west has will see a decline in birth rates IMO (see japan)
but then again i am also not very invested in "the white race." well, not anymore invested than i am in humanity in general. having similar skin color or genetics to me doesn't make you more special in my eyes

Yeah sure, eventually, when I can.

I don't have any kids, and don't really intend of having any. My super close cousin (who I've considered more of a sister, being an only child) has 2 girls and I enjoy spoiling them. I also enjoy being able to go home at the end of the day, especially when they're being a hassle.

P.S. -OIE-, I absolutely ADORE your avatar on here!

Strongly agree!

thanks! i just pulled it off google images so i have no idea who the original artist is i should really try and track that down and credit them on my profile or something because G'dang is it cool lol. I love netero, and more broadly the chimera ant arc in Hunter X Hunter so much. I don't typically binge watch anime, but i finished that arc in like a day it was so good XD

Netero is one of my favourite characters!

I'm more a fan of the York New City/Phantom Troupe arc, but the Chimera Ant arc is also amazing, especially the second half. I found the beginning to be lagging a bit, but once Bisky arrived, I was hooked right until the end of the arc.

I hear kids go great roasted on a spit, confirm/deny?

I'm not completely against the idea of having kids later in my life. Unfortunately, my openness to the possibility of children shrinks every time I see some shitty little brat misbehaving in a store and shrieking when they don't get their way.

Haha well it is something i've thought about, too much perhaps. And it is true. But you cant really complain about them breeding too much when you yourself are not breeding at all.

Yeah it's funny how Japan(possibly South Korea) seem to be the only non western nation that have similar problems to the west(low birth rates, ageing population, decline in marriage and sexually active people, depression, suicide, etc).
I blame feminism for it, not entirely but i think its a factor and yet Japan dose not have feminism. I guess Japan is westernised but still very traditional also.
And i guess Japan can blame the people being over worked and video games and anime and porn. The west can blame feminism, as well as video games and porn and even though we dont work as the Japanese do, how society has changed with both the man and the woman always working, people have less kids.

I dont think that white people are "special" it just saddens me to think that one day they will no longer exist. Even though it wont effect me personally, not having my own kids and being dead by then and all.

No, I hate kids. There's not a moment of the day where they're not irritating as hell.

To be honest, I'd rather slit my throat than have kids of my own and everybody who believes that every person has a duty to have children can go die. We all are born, we live, we die and lose everything, so there's literally NO point to having kids.