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I have 2. And 6 grand kids.
I'm 60- so- yeah.

Three, ages fourteen, eleven, ten.

nope

You ever been married, Cerb? Or have a girlfriend?
I feel for you, man. Kids are what makes you. And they will always love you.

My kids are 31 and 29.

Nope.  Wouldn't want to raise them in today's society anyway.

Like this world is any worse than any other time in history.
It's not. I grew up with Vietnam, Kennedys killed, Martin Luther King killed, Manson, and Nixon. It was s**t. Just like now. If not worse.

I may have been a child, but my Dad watched Walter Cronkite every night. I seen it all happen in real time.
I was a smart kid. It stuck with me all my life.

These days, the schools are trying to convince kids to ask for sex changes & read homoerotic cartoons...

I have twin daughters, 28 years old now.  I love them, but I do kinda wish they and their husbands would move out.

Sorry, Cerb.
That's one of the stupidest things I ever heard. I have kids who have kids. Never were taught that in school. Your delusional. You have NO idea. It's sad. You're not even in the same world as most folks. You're living a fantasy, with plastic guns and cartoon heros and villians.
You try to act like your some kind of billy bad ass, yet you live with your parents, and are hooking up to Trump just to feel like you belong to something. Sounds like your lonely, my friend.
I have tried to connect with you over the years- but you trust no one. Not even on this board. Call me, man. My number-
 269-624-3614. If you wanna talk. And that goes for anybody. I need to talk too. It sucks being lonely.

My son Jed is living with me now. He's having a hard time. It's my JOB, as a father, to do all I can. And I will.

It's going on in this state, & local parents are trying to get it stopped.
And yes, people in in these parts do eat possum.

That explains NOTHING. What does eating possum have to do with anything? I ate possum as a poor kid in the boonies. Don't blame your ignorance on the fact you ate possum. Don't fly.

Neither have you.

^ Neither did I what?  :question:
 It was a simple question- and you made it weird and political.

Explain anything...

Ok, buddy.  :thumbup: I really am your friend, believe it or not. I worry about your crazy ass.

Anyway- my son Eddie just had a daughter-Olephia Merchant. I am very proud. My first grand girl. I cried when I found out. There's no feeling like it.

I do not and cannot have children. There was only a brief period in my life where I ever wanted them.

Congrats  :smile: :smile: :cheers:

No, unfortunately not as I like kids and young people and they like me back. Not having kids and never being married are two of the many faults I have.

^ Man, that's not a fault. It's alright. I never planned to have kids. It just happened. I wasn't asking because I think folks without kids are missing out. I just am trying to connect with folks who do- cuz it can be hard.

Nope, and I don't plan on having any.

There is nothing in life---nothing---that begins to compare to the goodness my children have brought to me. I thought I knew what it was to love, but when I found out I was pregnant in 2008 I realized the love I'd felt in the past, however strong, had been like standing in the first rays of sunrise compared to high noon. And with each subsequent child that love didn't divide, it grew.  My children mean more to me than my very life, and I feel so lucky to have them.

Yes. It's unconditional LOVE.

I'm a mistake I shouldn't reproduce. I think the women sense that

Just the one, although had we met 10 years earlier I suspect me and Kristi would have had a small tribe of children. It has its trials and tribulations, but overall I'd say it is the best thing I've ever done.

No. No kids. Never much wanted them ever.

And now, I'm pushing 40. I like my life most the way it is. Can come and go as I please.

I have two sons, ages 15 and 20. They're both good kids. I guess I didn't F up raising them too badly.

Winston Churchill said the ideal number of children to have was four, since that would be one to replace the father, one to replace the mother, one for population growth, and a spare in case of tragedy.

Of course Mr. and Mrs. Duggar say the idea number of children is roughly equal to an hour's output for a queen bee.

Mama Duggar must be the most fertile woman ever to walk the earth. She can get pregnant just by standing downwind from her husband. :D

Nope.  Not going to either.  Even if I do find someone I got myself fixed back in December because I don't really want to bring children into this world.

The plethora of posters here who report having no children and wanting no children is not entirely atypical of what is being seen in the First World in this century, wherein citizens of many nations are not even demonstrating a birth rate sufficient to keep a steady population: they're losing people quickly and drastically.

People living in the Third World, and in particular those of the Islamic faith in and out of the developed world, are having so many more children than many developed western nations (and Japan too) that this outbreeding of the west is going to completely change the nature of life on this planet in this century. (Between Commonwealth immigration and a higher birth rate among first and second generation immigrants, it took only about sixty years for English people to become a minority in London, the capital of the English nation/UK and the English-speaking world.)

When people speak of the effects of overpopulation burdening humankind and the resources of the planet, these effects are much more drastically detrimental in and because of Third World populations than elsewhere. Deforestation, inadequate sewage disposal, accumulations of trash materials, draining of natural resources without management, all these and more are ecological disasters rising from the growth of massive populations in undeveloped and underdeveloped regions.

There's also the fact that the cultures seeing the most population growth are not those which have traditions that western nations enshrine, like women's rights, the rights of homosexuals, religious freedom, tolerance, democracy, respect for diversity. We like to think progress is a constant in life and the gains in human rights we've made in the west are now permanent, but the signs point to a  tipping point wherein the Third World will soon so greatly outnumber the developed world that consequences may arise which leave the gains in human rights that grew out of the Age of Enlightenment consigned to the past. A past likely to be erased from the record, if the actions of the totalitarian movements of recent history are any indication.

Just as I spent years saying we were overdue for a pandemic, I have also long believed the odds are a dark age is coming, and many of its roots will lie in the fact the west has simply let itself become numerically inferior, while at the same time admitting into itself peoples whose cultural traditions are not those of egalitarianism, and yet who may one day simply vote those rights out of existence. Or maybe voting will itself go away, since rarely have Islam and democracy been bedfellows. (Or democracy and any of the many forms of dictatorship and totalitarianism that seem the default setting of the "might makes right" human race across the world and across time.)

I think our culture is dying, and it's looking more and more like suicide.

I do agree that our civilisation is headed for a dark ages-style collapse sooner or later. I am not convinced that the third world will benefit from it though, but it was an interesting argument to read.