Current Events > When you're old it will be awful to have no family

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So many millennials don't want to have kids...

Most of them will change their minds tbh
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I can just adopt at that point
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For the current older generations, yes it's probably pretty lonely. But technology for our generation with social media etc means we're connected in many ways, plus we have no idea how technology will further change.

What if I dont plan on being old
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Awfully nice?

When I get too old to take care of myself, I would never want to force that responsibility on to a family member.

We've had to for our grandmother and an aunt, it's hell.

Professional care is worth the cost.
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Sad if you think the only benefit of having a family is having someone to care for you
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My son was recently born and it's the greatest thing ever. I wouldn't trade the experience for anything.
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Three words:

Robot butler/caretaker sonmydude
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so legacy eh?
...i understand that.

I think folks today dont know what they want and are lost. you're told what to do and who to be as young adults. when youre actually done with school, who are you? The one planned by others? or, are you someone else? ... what if you don't have a plan in life, you become someone else's plan.
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Yeah cause having family means tons of visitors for people in care homes near the end of their days.

Wait..... No that's not how it is at all.
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If I had a family they'd probably despite me. Because I only had them because someone on GameFAQs told me it was a good idea.

wah_wah_wah posted...

If I had a family they'd probably despite me. Because I only had them because someone on GameFAQs told me it was a good idea.

Yes my man you should follow the advice of someone who doesn't know jack shit about you because CE knows all

Bless
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This stupid topic again, smh.
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I'm 35, have never wanted kids and don't expect to ever change my mind. I don't necessarily think I will live to be old. I mean it depends on how old we're talking, but like old old... nah. I doubt I'll make it to that.
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ImTheMacheteGuy posted...

I'm 35, have never wanted kids and don't expect to ever change my mind. I don't necessarily think I will live to be old. I mean it depends on how old we're talking, but like old old... nah. I doubt I'll make it to that.

Back when I was young I wanted kids and a dog and a white picket fence and all the shit I never had.... Now I'm 35 as well and I'm with you. I'm not dead set against it but I doubt I ever will. Haven't wanted kids since I was maybe 20. If not younger.

Also my family is kinda messed up not sure I'd be doing the kids any favours.
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I'm torn. I can see it either way.

If you don't have kids, you can travel and have more fun and live more stress free because you don't have that responsibility on your shoulders.

But you won't be able to teach someone about life. You won't be able to share your favorite games and movies and places with a little copy of you and the person you love most. You won't see them grow and you won't be able to pass on your heritage and success into the future. Your legacy vanishes.

Not having kids is definitely the easier and more "fun" route, but having kids is probably the more satisfying and rewarding route.
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FLUFFYGERM posted...

But you won't be able to teach someone about life. You won't be able to share your favorite games and movies and places with a little copy of you

Let's be real though so many kids are contradictory and uninterested in the parents favourite things that that's not really a relevant thing most of the time.

Like the Prince said... Parents just don't understand.
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Probably, but you have to pick the lesser of two evils

1) don't have any kids, end up feeling lonely and having to find other things to keep you entertained

or

2) get married, have kids, end up divorced and losing half of everything you own, have your ex-wife turn the kids against because and talk about how terrible of a person you are while she takes thousands of dollars from you each month leaving you unable to afford a decent retirement
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CanuckCowboy posted...

FLUFFYGERM posted...

But you won't be able to teach someone about life. You won't be able to share your favorite games and movies and places with a little copy of you

Let's be real though so many kids are contradictory and uninterested in the parents favourite things that that's not really a relevant thing most of the time.

Like the Prince said... Parents just don't understand.

Yeah but sometimes they are interested. And when they're not, you can spend time and resources to figure out what does interest them and then derive great satisfaction from enabling them to pursue those things.
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A good chunk of millennials don't want to have children because they can't afford it
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DifferentialEquation posted...

Probably, but you have to pick the lesser of two evils

1) don't have any kids, end up feeling lonely and having to find other things to keep you entertained

or

2) get married, have kids, end up divorced and losing half of everything you own, have your ex-wife turn the kids against because and talk about how terrible of a person you are while she takes thousands of dollars from you each month leaving you unable to afford a decent retirement

This beta mentality explains why you're a trumpist
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who needs kids when you have all that land in flyover country
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Offworlder1 posted...

This stupid topic again, smh.

Always examine the lives of people who obsess over having kids.

You'll find a lot of the time that they have absolutely nothing else to be proud of, no real accomplishments. So the kids become their focal point by default.
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What up TC you were so busy shaming others in your OP that you forgot to mention how many children of your own you have.

So how many children do you have?

CanuckCowboy posted...

ImTheMacheteGuy posted...

I'm 35, have never wanted kids and don't expect to ever change my mind. I don't necessarily think I will live to be old. I mean it depends on how old we're talking, but like old old... nah. I doubt I'll make it to that.

Back when I was young I wanted kids and a dog and a white picket fence and all the shit I never had.... Now I'm 35 as well and I'm with you. I'm not dead set against it but I doubt I ever will. Haven't wanted kids since I was maybe 20. If not younger.

Also my family is kinda messed up not sure I'd be doing the kids any favours.

I'm adopted, so I've never known biological family. I appreciate my family, but there is a serious disconnect. I feel like they're a nucleus and I'm just an electron orbiting on the periphery. I've never really truly bonded with any of them the way I suspect non-adopted people do.
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FLUFFYGERM posted...

I'm torn. I can see it either way.

If you don't have kids, you can travel and have more fun and live more stress free because you don't have that responsibility on your shoulders.

But you won't be able to teach someone about life. You won't be able to share your favorite games and movies and places with a little copy of you and the person you love most. You won't see them grow and you won't be able to pass on your heritage and success into the future. Your legacy vanishes.

Not having kids is definitely the easier and more "fun" route, but having kids is probably the more satisfying and rewarding route.

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@LinksLiege

Anyone can be a breeder, takes no talent or skill, and besides having no accomplishments the people obsessed with having kids gave up their dreams, goals, and ambition long ago or quit when it got too hard showing they did not want what they were chasing enough.

There are people who chase their dreams with kids but they are almost always forced to put family first where the person without kids does not have to make that sacrifice.
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I don't really have any family now though, and doubt I'll even make it to old age.

Never wanted kids before, and certainly don't want them now.
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Offworlder1 posted...

There are people who chase their dreams with kids but they are almost always forced to put family first where the person without kids does not have to make that sacrifice.

That's one of the reasons I like Steven Wilson so much. He's outright said he has no interest in raising a family because he doesn't want his focus diverted from his music whatsoever.

It's hilarious to see people act like being a parent is some grand achievement. Congrats - there are teenagers in high school who have accomplished the same thing because they didn't pay attention in sex education class.
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This topic has helped to identify a buncha betas
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How do u get a family if girls don't wanna bone

It's easy to adopt a kid rite