childless couples and house/money/life

michaels

So you have seen idiocracy then.

FATBALLZ wrote: »

, unfortunately the way the welfare system is set up it encourages the most useless people to have kids, whilst the most productive people can't afford them. A sort of reverse evolution.

thespiderspeed

HAMISH_MCTAVISH wrote: »

I'm of the opinion that you should start out with a houseplant, and if you can keep that alive then try a goldfish.

If that works then move up to a cat or dog.

And if you can get through a few years without accidentally killing any of the above, it's probably safe to try growing a child.

I never got past the houseplant stage....:o

Rehab or too many Sandra Bullock movies? http://youtu.be/5P_SO714f38

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moneyinmypocket

lol some pretty funny posts had a good chuckle

I guess my point is there is a shift in people's minds - the days of thinking you grow up, get married buy a house, have kids, watch them graduate, see the grandchildren, etc etc etc are changing

zagfles

moneyinmypocket wrote: »

lol some pretty funny posts had a good chuckle

I guess my point is there is a shift in people's minds - the days of thinking you grow up, get married buy a house, have kids, watch them graduate, see the grandchildren, etc etc etc are changing

There were always people who didn't want/couldn't have kids. Evolution dictates they die out though!

moneyinmypocket

The problem is those without a house need to stop sub sky and iPhones and start saving! Think of the kids

MacMickster

Children bring with them a change in lifestyle that is far more rewarding than can be easily explained on an internet forum.

They can cost as much or as little as you like to bring up, and the most valuable thing that you can ever give them is your time.

If you have the money then sending them to a good school is an option, but if not, you can turn a poor education into a good one yourself.

A day spent searching for creatures in rock pools at the beach, with a bag of chips at lunchtime keeps them entertained as much as a day at a theme park without the cost or the queues.

You can feel like stand-up comedian of the year, telling jokes that wouldn't even raise a groan in your local on a Friday night.

You will become the super hero who can beat every bad guy.

You will find that a bad day at work suddenly becomes a good day with as little as a single smile when you get home.

Few people will achieve greater things in their life than raising their children to become adults of whom they are proud.

duchy

The subtext here seems to be "Is it more socially acceptable nowdays to be "selfish" and prefer material things to having a family ?"

There's still a generation around who have a subset who think that limiting childbearing to one child you can afford is selfish as it deprives the child of siblings.

Of course irony is that had those who choose to remain childless had parents with the same mindset......They wouldn't exist !

PasturesNew

MacMickster wrote: »

A day spent searching for creatures in rock pools at the beach, with a bag of chips at lunchtime keeps them entertained as much as a day at a theme park without the cost or the queues.

Chips would be spoiling them. We used to have caravan/beach holidays when I was growing up. Every day we'd go and sit on the beach all day - with sandwiches, a flask of nasty coffee and some orange squash. Chips were a "once a week" tea-time holiday treat.

chucky

moneyinmypocket wrote: »

lol some pretty funny posts had a good chuckle

I guess my point is there is a shift in people's minds - the days of thinking you grow up, get married buy a house, have kids, watch them graduate, see the grandchildren, etc etc etc are changing

Each and every generation is different, people in their 30s do things differently in their life that people would have done 50, 100 or 500 years ago. Just because you're generation or the last generation did something it doesn't mean it's always going to be or has been that way.

ILW

I cannot help but think the world would be better if the people that could truly afford to have and raise children did, and those that have to rely on others to pay for their offspring remained childless.

Tend to think the same about fat, ugly people too.