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Why do people have kids?
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Do you have a child, karma ? Every parent has days when they ask the same question of themselves, but we get back to loving our children just the same.
23:46 Wed 14th Oct 2009
Do you have a child, karma ? Every parent has days when they ask the same question of themselves, but we get back to loving our children just the same.Sometimes when ours misbehaved we'd sigh, look at one another and say, despairingly 'We blame the parents' ! We both had parents ourselves, of course, and we always blamed them when we were younger, so I think that MUST be right, don't you ?
Who decides to have a child? They may decide when to have one but who decides whether to have one at all? Nature and evolution have seen to it that very few couples decide against reproducing altogether. The rest of us just do,without a 'why', nature having carefully avoided telling us what the production faults of the product are . There's no product recall either, so, by the time we find out, there's no recourse. But, by then, we've discovered the joys of it too, joys which nature only ever hinted at in our experience of children and parents. These, it turns out, vastly outweigh the defects in the product, which is just as well, really !
Who decides to have a child? They may decide when to have one but who decides whether to have one at all? Nature and evolution have seen to it that very few couples decide against reproducing altogether. The rest of us just do,without a 'why', nature having carefully avoided telling us what the production faults of the product are . There's no product recall either, so, by the time we find out, there's no recourse. But, by then, we've discovered the joys of it too, joys which nature only ever hinted at in our experience of children and parents. These, it turns out, vastly outweigh the defects in the product, which is just as well, really !
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I don't have children no. I used to think and still think I want kids and whats the point in life without thinking I might have kids but about a couple of weeks ago I started questioning why anyone would have kids.
I suppose the nature theory you spoke about is a good way to look at it. Like if we weren't meant to reproduce we wouldn't be born with the power to do so but then sometimes I think what sort of life is it these days for a kid?
I don't have children no. I used to think and still think I want kids and whats the point in life without thinking I might have kids but about a couple of weeks ago I started questioning why anyone would have kids.
I suppose the nature theory you spoke about is a good way to look at it. Like if we weren't meant to reproduce we wouldn't be born with the power to do so but then sometimes I think what sort of life is it these days for a kid?
What sort of life is it nowadays for a kid?
Better than it was for the children of any previous generation or our own, to date. In what way, do you think, 'nowadays' life is hard for kids? If times were hard, the kids would always be the last to know, if they ever did.In fact they remain blissfuly ignorant and don't have any sense of scale of the worries that adults have.What seems a big worry to a child is almost meaningless to an adult, unless they themselves remember what it was like to be a child, and a big worry to us is never really comprehended by them. They pick up that there's unhappiness in adults and may have to be reassured but that has been so ever since there were unhappy adults, which means many thousands of years ago !
Better than it was for the children of any previous generation or our own, to date. In what way, do you think, 'nowadays' life is hard for kids? If times were hard, the kids would always be the last to know, if they ever did.In fact they remain blissfuly ignorant and don't have any sense of scale of the worries that adults have.What seems a big worry to a child is almost meaningless to an adult, unless they themselves remember what it was like to be a child, and a big worry to us is never really comprehended by them. They pick up that there's unhappiness in adults and may have to be reassured but that has been so ever since there were unhappy adults, which means many thousands of years ago !
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