Children Are Evil

[Ro-bear]

Im not a big fan of kids...

Is it so wrong to have no desire to raise a family..ever?

 

 

Not at all. I don't particularly like being around kids, especially small ones. I think they are cute in appearance, and sometimes behavior. I like making faces at babies and watching their expressions. They seem to like me pretty well. I like my kids a great deal, though. It helps that they are girls. I think boys are a pain in the ass.

 

Why did I risk having kids if I didn't particularly like them? Because I knew I would like my own! Don't ask me how, I just knew.

[Ex-COG]

Yo, another childless heathen here. I have plenty of neices and nephews to keep me busy! And I wouldn't want to go through with all the pain of childbirth (plus, I hate doctors!).

 

But there are people out there who think we are all just selfish creatures, a drain on society, free-riders and parasites. Family Free-Riders

 

I know this is gonna sound really racist and stereotypical, but has anyone ever seen a mexican woman with less than 2 kids? Kids who are NOT obnoxious, loud, and undisciplined? Kids who DONT run around the entire store screaming at the top of their lungs?

 

For some reason, I dont recall ever not seeing this.

A Hispanic woman I work with has only two children. She had a lot of trouble with her second pregnancy, so maybe she and her husband bucked their culture and church for her own safety? Your culture does have a lot to do with how many kids you have, whether you're a white fundy, a recent Catholic immigrant, or just someone who grew up around large families feeding off the system and copies it because it's all you know. I was one of seven kids, but my parents never asked for any type of aid, even though Dad went through times of lay-off. It was tough sometimes. I think my Mom would have been more mentally healthy if she had had less kids and got out of the house more often, too. Women do need a life outside the home, even if they choose to have children.

[Kurari]

Alot of my beliefs previously were that since children were a blessing, you should have alot of them so that you could carry out your role as woman[...]

 

I've been told I'm not "woman enough" because I'm childfree and had my tubes tied. Somehow people think having children is the be all and end all of being female. The true test of your womanhood. If that's what it is, then I resign from womanhood and will live happily in androgyny. I've also been called a "female eunuch" (which I jokingly use to this day).

 

The last time I got the "you're not woman enough" bull, my response was, "Heh, several hours of worry-free, interruption free sex always takes care of any doubts about THAT."

[The Sage Nabooru]

Might I also say that these days I very often hate people who have children, too.

 

Nobody here, of course. But I hate the people who come into my department at Sprawl-Mart and buy their kids the absolute filthiest, sex-and-guns-filled rap albums and blood-and-guts video games, and then bitch about how dirty the stuff we sell is. That's why every CD we sell is edited, so parents won't have to go through the laborious effort of looking at a CD to determine if it contains something they would want their children to hear. I mean, come on, it could take an entire half-second to read the sticker on the front of the Busta Rhymes CD that proudly proclaims that it has the song "I Love My *****".

 

The people who want even MORE government censorship on television so we can protect their darling little angels from real-life situations, like the fact that women have breasts or that sometimes people use words like "crap"...... The ones whose perfect world would be one where every album cover containing anything but a smiling perfect well-covered blonde would be wrapped in plain brown paper, lest the little ones look at them...... I am sick and tired of people expecting the world to raise their children for them.

 

Don't want your kid to watch violent programs on TV? Don't let him. Get a little violence-control thing to install in your TV and leave the rest of us well alone. If I want to shoot up stormtroopers in a Star Wars game I have the right to. Oh, and great job buying all the Disney pop princess CDs for your little girl. We all know they're safe - especially when your kid reaches 14 and starts throwing up and starving herself so she can be perfect-looking just like them. Let's not expose them to songs about real life from that nasty whore Alanis Morissette.

[nicoleeann]

I also can get really pissed at some pregnant people who go around gloating and acting like they just created a miracle. Big deal, so the tadpole reached the egg, its happened a trillion times before. If I see one more pregnant person rub her belly in front of me I'll scream.

[Asimov]

I also can get really pissed at some pregnant people who go around gloating and acting like they just created a miracle. Big deal, so the tadpole reached the egg, its happened a trillion times before. If I see one more pregnant person rub her belly in front of me I'll scream.

 

Yea, it's no less common than taking a dump.

[white_raven23]

Ugh. How about parents who treat their parasite as though it is the Golden Spawn.

 

They make me nauseous.

 

These are the familes that have been winding up on that tv show "Honey We're Killing the Kids!" every week.

 

Every week one of the main challenges is taking television sets out of their kids' bedrooms.

 

TVS in BEDROOMS!!!

 

I never had a tv in my bedroom! Hell I was 15 before I had a phone in there....and NEVER my own phone line.

 

NO wonder "time out" is an inneffective punishment! Sending them to their room with the tv and playstation and own personal computer (didn't have one of my own of THOSE until renting own apartment) in the bedroom. Gee. Wonder why the kids aren't feeling particularly punished? Can't imagine why.

[Asimov]

I live by the philosophy in regards to getting kids to obey: you only have to ask once with a kick to the back.

[Guest Shiva H. Vishnu]

I live by the philosophy in regards to getting kids to obey: you only have to ask once with a kick to the back.

 

 

My motto: Spare the electrified bedroom floor, spoil the child.

[Dissonance]

I hate kids too, I can't even stand those the same age as me T_T

[sonofspong]

I really hate how people regard children as "miracles". Bitch, your kid is NOT a miracle. Childbirth happens all the friggin time, and HAS happened about a trillion times since the dawn of man. The term miracle applies only to stuff that doesn't happen that often.

 

Now, if you're kid is born with cool mutant powers, shooting laser beams out of his eyes, THATS miraculous.

[Guest Shiva H. Vishnu]

I also can get really pissed at some pregnant people who go around gloating and acting like they just created a miracle. Big deal, so the tadpole reached the egg, its happened a trillion times before. If I see one more pregnant person rub her belly in front of me I'll scream.

 

Yea, it's no less common than taking a dump.

 

 

Actually, it's fairly less common. I take a dump every day but I've only given birth 9 times.

[Onyx]

Being in a wheelchair is hard enough but having children and having little sleep? Seriously, it would be Abu Ghraib.

 

So no thanks, children.

You may be angels or demons but I don't need to be a father.

I'll be content with "Uncle" instead if I had to associate with children.

That and having children is extremely expensive.

 

I value my freedom a lot. I'd love to be out drinking, having fun, falling in love with a guy and having my sleep.

Children would take that all away.

 

Oh and overpopulation and poverty is a huge issue.

[SilentLoner]

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I like kids but i hate babies-they creep me out. no offense.

 

 

Me too. Seriously.

There's something that seriously freaks me out about about a newborn bablies crying, something animalistic, something primal. Like it's the sonic equivalent of a neurotransmitter reaction in a synapse, designed to provoke reactions in the parents on a reptilian-brain level.

Just thinking that this is an actual human being who at the presence has less awareness of its own existance than an insect has of its existance, whose "emotional" (really just blind instinct) reactions are almost mechanical, really creeps me out for some reason.

 

Some people look at a baby and see cute, some see hope, some see innocent, most people associate a baby wih some positive emotion.

I look at a baby and I see blind parasitic greed.

 

Same here!

 

I like little kids (around ages 3-8) but even then only for temporary periods of time. I used to work in this nursery and I enjoyed it, having only to play with them and keep an eye on the kids for 2 hours a day.

The thought of pregnacy disguts me. I hate pregnant women who gloat all over the place and carry their sonogram pictures around (My AP psychology teacher took the liberty of doing so for the last 3 months of school). Not to mention how everyone brushes off my decision about remaining childless as "teenage rebellion." fucking assholes...

 

I agree that all fertility clinics should be shut down with no exception. Millions of orphans and foster children all over the world, and people will spend thousands of $$$ for in vitro.

It irks me that to prove you can drive, you need to take classes, take written tests and then drive around with an instructor to get a license and prove you can drive. Is such a test necessary for parenting? NO.

 

The thought of overpopulation scares the hell out of me. I belive we need to educate people about what will happen if this is not controlled. I say we get population controls now as prevention, or else let things get severe and have to resort to necessary extremes (ex: China).

 

On a personal level, I have considered becoming a foster parent one day. Not too sure, tho.

I see myself as being a "cool aunt" more than anything.

[nicoleeann]

yeah, I really like kids ages 3-11. I could hang out with those youngsters all day.

 

I feel really ackward when I'm around a baby and I refuse to talk baby talk or whatnot. And also I think I would rather eat my own leg than push one of those things out of my privates.

 

Here is my worst favorite thing that parents do: complain about their kids.

You wanted them, so don't complain about them, no matter how bad they are, you asked for it.

[Evelyn]

My husband and I are child-free, as we like to put it. It's one of the things we found out early on that we had in common - neither of us wanted children. I had thought long and hard about this (who will take care of me when I'm old?) and decided I didn't want children. When I discovered my future husband felt the same way, all right!

 

I have to chuckle a bit about one of our pets, a macaw. One of the reasons I didn't want children is that I couldn't stand teenagers, even when I was one. We got our macaw when he was a year old and he got along great with both of us. Then, one day when he was eight years old, he bit me hard with no provocation. A few days later, he bit me again. He was biting me every chance he got. I contacted a parrot behavior specialist by email and she advised me on some things to do. She also said he could be entering puberty and hormones are affecting his behavior. Large parrots can live a long time, 70-80 years, and their life stages are similar to humans. So, in spite of myself, I have a "teenage" parrot. Ha ha! Two years later now, he rarely tries to bite me, though I am careful to have a jacket or robe on to protect my arms when he is standing on my arm.

[Thackerie]

 

 

The thing I hate the most about it is that people think that my clock just isn't ticking yet... and that like every respectable woman, I will want kids as soon as I am "settled." It seems beyond some people that having children isn't the life goal for all of us. It doesn't make me selfish, in fact, in some ways, it makes me less selfish than they are.

 

 

When i was a few years younger, I didn't really want kids "right now" but i thought "maybe later I would want them, like by the time I was 25." Well, 25, came and went and now I'm 27. I'm pretty sure i never want kids. I'm really happy it just being me and tom. I mean...accidents happen, so if I DID get pregnant, I guess I would just deal with that...but I hope I never have to.

 

I was also in that "maybe later (but certainly not now)" mindset for a long, long time. Now I'm 48, and I've escaped kid-free. And I have a nice retirement fund set up (no worries about "but who'll take care of you in our old age?") and absolutely no regrets whatsoever!

 

Don't get me wrong: I LOVE children - provided they're well-behaved, quiet, intelligent, and sweet-natured - which means I really don't like very many children. (Well, some are OK in small and irregular doses.)

 

Also, I don't get it when people coo over "cute" babies, especially newborns, which I think resemble grubs. (And they smell funny, too!)

[The Sage Nabooru]

I've been told I'm not "woman enough" because I'm childfree and had my tubes tied. Somehow people think having children is the be all and end all of being female. The true test of your womanhood. If that's what it is, then I resign from womanhood and will live happily in androgyny. I've also been called a "female eunuch" (which I jokingly use to this day).

 

I even hear women without children admit that they're not experiencing "the greatest thing a woman can do". Like giving birth and raising children is THE apex and ultimate of feminine existence.

 

Hell, I even hate it when women say things like, "Sometimes I enjoy celebrating my femininity and being delicate and passive and emotive." Like being a real woman is all about Lifetime and crocheted doilies. To me, the ultimate celebration of my sex is buying a bull-whip and making a spear out of a rock, a log and my own bare hands and using them to enforce my will upon the males in my life while using my spare time to paint my battle shield. Fuck Martha Stewart - it's all about the Amazons, baby.