Serious question: Wanna have kids but doom-and-gloom has me paranoid.

we could use some kids after the doom, when earth is again clean....:-)go for it..good luck


DANE

Just stop reading this shit, start a family, then come back to this place for the same missed predictions.

Honestly I wouldn't do it right now. You worry about them constantly anyway, and with all that's going on, it would be extremely rough. just my opinion, though. i am a worrier by nature.

My mom who is 79 told me that ever since she was young, she has heard the world was going to end in so many years.

We are all still here, life does go on.

The love you feel for your child and the happiness it will bring you (and aggravation) is worth the risk. If nothing ever happens and life just keeps on keeping on, you will be happy you had kids.

If the world ends, and we all die, then you will be with your kids soaking up all of that love anyways.

Raising a child is a FULLTIME job. Mines 9 and I cannot think of a life without her.

I love my children with the heat of a million suns but I am not so sure I would do it again if I had the choice. Having children is not something to do on a whim or take lightly. They are wonderful in so many ways but they are so incredibly life changing (or should be) that it isn't for everyone. You have to be prepared to spend every extra cent you have, give up all your free time, become a slave to the cause, and be able to handle being driven to the brink of insanity on a regular basis. They are not cute little pets to feed an ego. It is NOT easy not even for a minute and when all of the obvious is covered, there is still stomach turning worry and the fact that the children, no matter how together we may think we are, will undoubtedly be exposed to problems you may not even know you have yet. It can be rewarding if you are lucky. Good parenting is only half of the formula and don't let anyone tell you otherwise. Other parents love to judge each other but every child is different and some are easier than other. Some are little satans incarnate. If you are brave enough and willing to COMPLETELY sacrifice yourself for the rest of your life then go for it. If not, don't and not because of "doom and gloom". Kids incarnate here for a reason and noone knows when doom is coming. Every generation thinks it is doomed. this one is no different. Good luck OP!

Doom has been around since the beginning of time. Things are much better now than they have ever been. Electricity, plumbing, infant mortality, toothpaste etc... A few hundred years ago, or less, people happily had 12 children to watch 1/2 of them die of childhood diseases and women died durring childbirth constantly. There has always been war, economic hardship, disease, ect... It is a reality and a part of human evolution. You can also say people are not good today, compared to what? Are you in danger of getting shot on Main Street like in the days of the Wild West? To actually think that we have it so bad in todays society is merely human arrogance.
Children are a blessing, I have two. Raise them with morals and enjoy them. It's great that you are smart enough to have concerns about the world around you. However, don't let fear consume you. That is no way to live. Good Luck!

Just do it! The world was supposed to end with the invention of the crossbow..

DON'T

nuff said

Stop coming here and letting the little-brains frighten you...

Go have a kid...

Enjoy life...

Bringing life into this fucked up world to suffer and pay taxes is immoral.

Even if they're lucky, one day those kids are going to have to die a painful death anyway. Would you want that?

This is one of the little-brains I was talking about...

Too bad for us that his parents didn't take his advice, huh?

have a high paying job? if not its a struggle.

OP, the world isn't going anywhere, changes will always be on the horizon as well as set backs. Don't deprive yourself of happniess simply because the tv and internet brings so much bad news into your home.

You never know, you may produce the next best thing this country could count on.

It's actually better to have your child NOW before 2012 rather than after because of the radiation exposure coming from the nuclear reactor meltdowns.

If you want to postpone having a family for real reasons, then listen to your instincts...but don't postpone ANYTHING because of doom predictions...here or somewhere else!

There were those, years ago, who figured they'd never find out if Darth Vader really was Luke Skywalker's father, because "Jesus was coming back" before Star Wars 3 came out.....

Raising children is a full time job. IT'S HARD WORK that requires 100% ALL THE TIME. I have 3 grown kids...it was worth EVERY SECOND, but it's still terrifying at times. The world isn't what it was even 30 years ago. Every question has to be considered from the very beginning...and they come at you fast! As soon as a MD is involved with a pregnancy, all the rules change.

Will you continue to work? DO you work? Does the child go to day-care? Does the child receive all the immunizations from hell? What about all of the "what about's"? Everything from formula to education.......

Honey, there's enough to be REALLY concerned about and plan for without worrying about all the stuff on this site...but
....there's some things worth consideration on here, too.

Kids... :)

Listen, how about 1 kid? Let me tell you .. it is the toughest job you will ever love! And, no one pays you for it! I thank God everyday for the child that i get to parent. I look at my friends who are in late 40's and 50's and not much changed for themby not having children. Self indulgent and unhappy to boot. The honing that comes with a child is lifechanging and oh so worth it. They change you from the inside out.

There are many ways to raise a child. A little creativity and a sense of adventure go a long way. Go ahead and live your life.

yeah you gotta ignore the doom around here or you'll never get anywhere. And hey, if the doom really happens, what are you gonna do about it anyway?

Well I've done everything else that I wanted to or at least could (I'd have flown around the world in my own jet if it were really like that, but I care too little for money and that's about all I feel I missed out on...). My kids have changed my perspective on about everything. I never knew that I wanted to be a homesteader until we had the kids, but here we are. Do it, it's totally different than what you expect, I have a lot more tolerance for my parents mistakes. The economy and the health care system are the two things that I'm nervous about. You can prepare (it would be a lot easier to put the labor in b4 the kids:) for these things if you really think it's coming down (food, water, heat,.... taxes/mortgage should be easier to take care of in hyper-inflation than they are now). BTW, my wife was a totally different animal for 9 months and then 2 years after the pregnancy, the second was a little better. I hope your man is up to it!

BTW, plan to have at least two. It's not fair to only have one in my opinion. The thing about kids is that it's always changing and usually getting harder. You bring her/him home and it seems hard cause you don't know what they want (and neither do they....), then they figure out what they want, but can doo nothing but scream. You make mistakes and learn to correct them. Then they can move around and have no sense of anything but self. Then they're little facists... I think 5-11, may be really cool, and then you have to find a barrel big enough.... ;)

Ann Landers did a survey over 20 years ago: if you had to do it over again, would you have kids? 70% said NO. I would agree.

One's not fair, imo, because ultimately they'll be mostly in your home (unless you have to do the day care thing), they will reside in the adult world the entire time, instead of getting to play with someone close to their own age and residing in the adult headspace. Their are also a lot of nasty only child characteristics ( the least of which is not understanding the effort your going through for them or having skills for their own children, etc.)

Life goes on, have the kids.

Have some :)

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Don't do it. Think about the world you are bringing this new person into, and as you feed them knowledge, they learn how to suffer - very bad idea. Go become a nun.

Yeh, i think the point the OP was making was about the CHILDREN themselves, and NOT himself and his partner!

Having children is not just about you as a parent getting satisfaction out of it.. if thats your reasoning for having kids then you are fucked in the head.

Im not bringing children into this world until its changed drastically.

You will be under attack from Day 1. Prebirth care is destructive, xrays or scans, mercury in the mothers teeth, toxins in her foods and drinks, aspartame, msg, and the thousands of tons of heavy metals raining down every day from Asia.

Then at birth, the trained monkey, er, pediatrician, does it wrong, brings it in with trauma, then tries to force a buttload of dangerous vaccines on the kid unless you vehemently protest. Natural childbirth better, they won't mess with you.

Then, breastfeed, anything commercial is crap, including soy formula. Pasteurized milk products is crap. The pediamonkey will want to force more useless vaccinations, and emoxycilin for the earache, which would go away on its own if he had a brain. The TV babysitter will flood the kid's mind with destruction, the vaccines contain msg and traumatize the braincells for up to two years each, ritalin, anybody? Publik skool is for future drones, CPS waiting to give your kid to pedophiles if any little excuse occurs, like falling down (obviously abuse! Take that kid away). Cell phones to wreck them further. And a society of morons. You have a tough job avoiding all this, unless you took the blue pill and don't get any of this.

Have fun!

Milk is expensive OPie, Don't do it!

make kids like crazy people

in three or four generations we'll be sterile from the chemtrails