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Why would anyone want to even think about having kids now, in light of the absolute turmoil the world has been in the last year?
I worry enough about gainful employment for just MYSELF, let alone ankle biters.
If I'm on edge about how I'll survive and pay my mortgage just worrying about myself, why on Gods Green Earth would anyone want to bring other dependents into this absolutely maddening and dysfunctional world, unless of course they are completely independently wealthy?
Seeing my sister and her kids (7 and 5) and having to take time off work since they are virtual learning makes me wonder what people are smoking by wanting to still have kids after the pandemic.
Don't even get me started on how backwards it is that the poor and undereducated have many more kids than those in the upper-middle class and wealthy. Soooo backwards to say the least.
My grandfather used to lecture the family about the same issue after WW2. His five grandkids have had perfectly fine lives as it has turned out. We have all been everywhere in the world he never got to see, four of us got degrees whereas he left school at thirteen.
You cannot predict the future and it will probably take another year for the world to bounce back but it will.
Yeah, it is probably not high on most people's lists of "things to do". HOWEVER...
With so little else going on, the ***process*** used to make kids is probably more popular than ever right now, so there are probably going to be a lot of "happy accidents" next year. I mean, when everything is closed down, you are unemployed (30 million people are unemployed), and there is nothing else to do and you can't afford it anyway... then what's left?
I mean, it is free and accessible.
So yeah, there may not be an intentional baby boom but there could be a boredom baby boom.
Why would anyone want to even think about having kids now, in light of the absolute turmoil the world has been in the last year?
I worry enough about gainful employment for just MYSELF, let alone ankle biters.
If I'm on edge about how I'll survive and pay my mortgage just worrying about myself, why on Gods Green Earth would anyone want to bring other dependents into this absolutely maddening and dysfunctional world, unless of course they are completely independently wealthy?
Seeing my sister and her kids (7 and 5) and having to take time off work since they are virtual learning makes me wonder what people are smoking by wanting to still have kids after the pandemic.
Don't even get me started on how backwards it is that the poor and undereducated have many more kids than those in the upper-middle class and wealthy. Soooo backwards to say the least.
Please DO explain!
That is what emergency funds are for. You are supposed to have enough money put aside to make it 6 months without a job .
My son is about to change careers, his wife is taking licensing tests for her profession, yet they decided to use the pandemic down time to have a second baby.
As my DIL said, if everyone waited for their life to be perfectly lined up before having children, nobody would ever have them. We adapt. Their first child is almost 3 and they are an active couple. It was time to get #2 born, so their little pack could hit the trails.
For the same reasons people still had children during the Great Depression, or the two World Wars, or during the Black Death. On the physical level, it's called survival of the species, or the biological imperative. On the spiritual level, it's called deep love for the new life you're bringing into the world. You might want to try calling the result "children" rather than "ankle biters" as a start.
For the same reasons people still had children during the Great Depression, or the two World Wars, or during the Black Death. On the physical level, it's called survival of the species, or the biological imperative. On the spiritual level, it's called deep love for the new life you're bringing into the world. You might want to try calling the result "children" rather than "ankle biters" as a start.
I think there is a difference between the eras without birth control and a form of recreation that was free, and now, when we can choose to procreate or not. I’m sure some of the children born in the darkest of times probably suffered, and died young.
People have to have kids, it's what people do. On the other hand I'm not sad my own adult kids haven't had any. One never will and the other might someday. I realize not having grandchildren gives me less people to worry about, but I'm sure I'd be totally change my opinion if one were to suddenly appear...haha.
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