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0 sats \ 0 replies \ @bief57 5 Jan \ on: Why have kids? ideasfromtheedge
I love it when people ask this question, people always stay in limbo, silent for seconds before giving their answer. I get a nervous tic (metaphorically) when people say "you have to have children so that you have someone to take care of you when you're old", "I want to have children to preserve my family line or last name", the thing is, having children is no guarantee of anything, and how can you place such a responsibility on the shoulders of a future human being? The next questions are, do you really want to have children just for the sake of experiencing the greatest love that exists or is it just a "security" measure for your future?
There are many reasons and at the same time there are no reasons to have children. The answer to "why don't you want to have children?" has more varieties and logical reasons.
The desire to have children is purely biological. Here I am, after saying a thousand times that I didn't want to have any more children, that I only wanted to have a girl, now my uterus and my daughter are also pressuring me to bring another human being into the world. I try every day to weigh up the pros and cons of having another child and my biological instinct comes in to ruin all logical thinking, foundations and established facts.
Having children is physically, mentally, and financially exhausting, and at the same time they are your endless source of motivation, joy, and hope... at least now that they are small, but what about adolescence? I haven't reached that level yet.
Birthdays, Christmas, New Year's, Halloween only make sense to me, thanks to my daughter, because she is my motivation to give her magical moments, before her, for me they were insignificant dates.