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Originally Posted by supernerdgirl "Well, I hope your kids don't leave you alone in a nursing home. Because kids are ALWAYS a guarantee that you'll get taken care of in old age!"
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Originally Posted by Dwatted Wabbit
Unless you have a 55 year old pure alcoholic drug addict son living at home ruining your "golden years."
Isn't that the truth! I live in an area with alot of retired folks, and it's distressing to see how many of them have become fulltime "parents" now to their grandchildren, because their grownup kids are just too flaky and irresponsible to be able to care for them. Not good!
Originally Posted by supernerdgirl "Well, I hope your kids don't leave you alone in a nursing home. Because kids are ALWAYS a guarantee that you'll get taken care of in old age!"
Isn't that the truth! I live in an area with alot of retired folks, and it's distressing to see how many of them have become fulltime "parents" now to their grandchildren, because their grownup kids are just too flaky and irresponsible to be able to care for them. Not good!
Reminds me of a t-shirt I once read. "Stupid people shoudln't breed" Why do people incapable of raising kids insist on having them in a day and age when birth control is readiliy available?
Sometimes I wish we lived in a communist state where they performed a reversable sterilization procedure at 12 and you could apply to have it reversed at 25. Sure would solve a lot of problems for kids born to teen parents.
I'd favor reversible sterilization over that. You need to elminate the potential for accidental pregnancies. Sterilize them at 12 and have them take a parenting test to have it reversed at 25. Don't pass - no kids.
Honestly, more people probably would be ready for kids if they had until 25 to get their lives in order first.
I picked 25 because women mature so much between 18 and 25. Guys never grow up.
I agree with Chorizo (2nd poster). If that person has that ability, more power to him/her, but it wouldnt be my type of lifestyle either. Nothing wrong with that.
The only difference between men and boys is the price of their toys.
I do love that illusion though. My cousin's wife suffers from it. She had a kid at 22 with some other guy, who was a douche, and I got drilled about not being married or having a gf at 25. Then, when asked about children I said I wasn't really thinking about it, her response, "ya, most guys aren't mature enough until later on in life for it".
If I'd had said what I was thinking, I doubt any from that side would be on speaking terms with me. I was thinking about marrying and having children in that order probably long before she was, I just had some responsibility behind it. Nor was I jumping in the sack or a relationship with anyone that paid me more than 2 minutes worth of attention for the sake of being with someone.
The only difference between men and boys is the price of their toys.
*snickers*
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