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Just like people who have children also miss out on things (having more money to travel, more freedom, etc.)
It's a two way street, plain and simple.
I'm with you. I think that people who don't have children are missing out on stuff. But that doesn't mean that they would be happier if they had children. I'm missing out on the stuff that goes along with having a cat - but I'm not a cat person so I'm okay with that.
Unfortunately there are a ton of people who aren't cut out for parenting, who are parents. Not having children doesn't mean that it's because they're not cut out for it.
Owns a home
Has a good job
A good wife/husband
Kids
Ect.
You can actually live a fulfilling and happy life without any of these things. Not every single person on earth are meant to have children or even be married, its just not in the cards for them. Also, you can be good parents but have awful kids in spite of your best efforts as parents.
Just like people who have children also miss out on things (having more money to travel, more freedom, etc.)
It's a two way street, plain and simple.
This is exactly right. People who never raise children miss out on the positive aspects and challenges that come along with being a parent, the same way that parents miss out on constraints (to time, resources, etc.) that childless people do not deal with.
They say we are basically made to grow up and raise a child up to an adult. ...
By comparable reasoning, we're "basically made" to live in small bands in caves or forest-clearings, to hunt for food, to persevere on the edge of starvation, and to die in our 40s (if not murdered or starved before then).
....in life. They say we are basically made to grow up
and raise a child up to an adult. Do you think people
who never rear a child even if its adopted miss out on
somthing that's said to be one of the best things a person
will ever do as a adult.
And I'm talking a about raising a kid that you and you
only are responsible for I'm not talking about babysitting
every now and then someone else's child.
Who is "they"? The bible? The media? I've never wanted a child since I was a teenager. It's not that I hate kids, I have several nephews that I visit as often as I can. I just don't want that responsibility. I don't fel like I'm missing out on anything. I really don't care what anyone else thinks. It's not their life.
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