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Old 08-05-2009, 05:37 PM
 
Location: Santa Barbara
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It's time to bring out the bingo card!
I recognize THAT card! Were you by any chance posting in another group??
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Old 08-05-2009, 06:54 PM
 
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I recognize THAT card! Were you by any chance posting in another group??
Oh yes! I sometimes engage in the drinking game if the bingo card isn't handy.
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Old 08-05-2009, 07:31 PM
 
Location: South Carolina
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Stac2007

Why do you care whether or not we want the lil buggers or not? You've got your brood, and thats fine for you. Why the arguement?
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Old 08-05-2009, 07:37 PM
 
Location: SW Missouri
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Can't really say that I've been looking all too hard but I have plenty of female friends. Most suggest I would have a hard time finding a woman who wouldn't eventually want to have kids. My deal is this, I make a great uncle but I'm not nearly motivated enough to be responsible for the life of someone else. I'm 25, professional and working on my career/education, I would never be able to dedicate the time necessary for raising a child with a decent lifestyle. I've seen how relationships change when children are involved. Any ladies out there feel the same way?
yup yup

No kids for me. Life is much, much too good without them. Some women simply LIVE to have/raise children. It's not my thing. Never has been, never will be.

Never be influenced by what someone else "thinks" you should do. To thine own self be true!

20yrsinBranson
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Old 08-05-2009, 07:43 PM
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Location: MA/NH
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Comparing dogs to children is pretty creepy.
No it's not.
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Old 08-05-2009, 10:09 PM
 
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Kids destroy everything, make loud noises, don't obey to parents/owners most of the time. It sounds pretty much like dogs to me.
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Old 08-05-2009, 10:16 PM
 
Location: SW Missouri
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Kids destroy everything, make loud noises, don't obey to parents/owners most of the time. It sounds pretty much like dogs to me.
Trained dogs will obey their parents/owners command to their dying breath (the dog's that is). A quality you will not find in children, from what I have seen.

20yrsinBranson
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Old 08-05-2009, 10:17 PM
 
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Yeah I suppose that's true. Children are such disappointments to their parents most of the time, at least from what I've seen.
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Old 08-05-2009, 10:22 PM
 
Location: SW Missouri
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Yeah I suppose that's true. Children are such disappointments to their parents most of the time, at least from what I've seen.
You must know some of the same people I do. LOL

20yrsinBranson
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Old 08-06-2009, 12:18 AM
 
Location: Pinal County, Arizona
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I never really totally wanted to have kids. I put my career first. My thought was to be able to financially provide for myself any new lives that I brought into the word. Now that I am older and finally financially able to have my own kids, I no longer have the patience and understanding to tolerate them and their crying, screaming, fits, temper tamtrums, messyness, etc. Catch 22.
I know many professional women (Physicans, Attorneys etc) who give up their careers, or put them on hold for a number of years, when they have a child. The number of women doing this is increasing substantially -

They believe that raising their children is far more an important job than their career.
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