Current Events > Kevin Sorbo says people who say they are happy being childless are liars

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No, I'm pretty happy about it, Peanut.

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The point of societal pressure for (married) couples to have kids is to ensure the issue of the lack of kids needed to sustain a generation never comes up. See Japan's birthrate crisis for when they let the birth rate plummet too far. The US can sort of technically get away with not pressuring people because we have immigration covering for us.

That being said, I wouldn't expect people in their 20's and early 30's to be too concerned with having kids, especially in this economy when people can't afford to buy a house. However, it's when you hit your late 40's, into your 50's and 60's where you have to look back at your life and consider what kind of legacy you're leaving behind and what you've accomplished. This is when the decision of having children or abstaining come to bear its fruit.

For those who don't want children, I would recommend speaking to older folks who committed to that decision decades down the road and make sure you're comfortable with that decision with insight of how your future could play out and if they're happy, what are the components that led to them being fulfilled.

Because I have close older lady friends, one is battling CRUSHING loneliness and would lead an invasion of China to look for weapons of mass destruction if it meant finding a time machine to change her life decisions. Conversely, another doesn't have kids of her own, but still is in a very close family and family friends so she has her place in the world, in her community.