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What's the weirdest argument you've heard about my you should have children?

Just wonderin'....I've heard lots in my 28 years of marriage!

I think the weirdest and most selfish argument that I have ever heard was, "Who's gonna take care of you when you get old?" Can you believe that? As if it's fair to conceive a child just to be your nurse when you get old?

Because of our decision to remain childless we have been able to retire early and set up a future where if we need to be taken care of, we'll be responsible for that ourselves. It's as if that is a foreign concept. Or do you think it's just grasping at straws to scare us into having children?

Sometimes I think people with kids just want everyone to suffer equally :o) and are a little jealous of childless couples. Just me, or have you felt that too?

I think it would be interesting to hear what people have used to try to motivate/intimidate/scare you guys into having children!

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Permalink Reply by Jonel Burge on September 6, 2012 at 1:59am

I just got a new one!

"Not having kids is CRUEL because you're not thinking about all the people who can't have children. It's just like, laughing in their face because you can have kids but refuse to!"

....what?!

Permalink Reply by Susan Stanko on September 6, 2012 at 8:17am

That sounds like when Dawkins claimed we should all be happy to alive because we are the few that made it.

Permalink Reply by Michael OL on December 26, 2012 at 8:26pm

This one is so risibly paternalistic, that it's outright brilliant: http://www.nytimes.com/2012/11/16/opinion/brooks-the-age-of-possibi...

I quote: "People are not better off when they are given maximum personal freedom to do what they want. They’re better off when they are enshrouded in commitments that transcend personal choice — commitments to family, God, craft and country."

So the purpose of having kids is to constrain and channel one's otherwise unfettered tendencies. Children are good precisely because they limit our choices, for otherwise we'd run amok, and would ultimately be unhappy.

Freedom is slavery!