Poll: Kids or no kids

[Jayne]

The wife and I were an oddity back in CA for not having kids, but here it seems we're running into more couples who don't have kids and/or don't plan on having kids.

So unscientific poll here in the CFF community, do you have kids / are you going to have kids or are you not having kids?

This is human kids here, not the goat kind.

 

[REELDOC]

I have one, Chicken Lady has four. Thank goodness they are all 40+. Have two grandkids, never see one of them.

Honestly, I wouldn't even think about having younguns this day in time.

 

[Dale Gribble]

One son and one daughter...both just turned 22.

I would not trade being a parent for anything in the world.

 

[Cluck Norris]

3, was told we would be lucky to have one... dr was wrong, the youngest one is 100% my clone.

 

[two fingers]

 

[SPST]

2 kids, 2 grandkids

 

[12151791]

I like the trying part having kids.

 

[RR]

4 kids. 20, 16, 8, and 5

 

[S4f]

The wife and I never had any or wanted any.
Someone.once asked me who's gonna take care of you when you get old.
I told them, I'll use the money I saved by not having any and pay someone

 

[charliedeltajuliet]

My wife and I have a daughter. She is the very best thing that happened to me.

 

[Cowboy]

4 kids. 20, 16, 8, and 5

You had a good stretch of 8 years.

 

[REELDOC]

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Too cute! Need stand-in grandparents? Have plenty ammo for them to shoot.😅

 

[BatteryOaksBilly]

One daughter......52

 

[RR]

You had a good stretch of 8 years.

Not so much. We lost a kid. He would be 10 this year.

 

[HMP]

None

 

[Cowboy]

Not so much. We lost a kid. He would be 10 this year.

Hate that man. I've never had to go through that kind of pain. I know lots have.

 

[Cowboy]

None

Your still young my brother had his last kid at 48.

 

[RR]

Your still young my brother had his last kid at 48.

I'll be 47 Sunday.


Hell no......

 

[Cowboy]

I'll be 47 Sunday.


Hell no......

My wife's birthday is 3, mil 5th and Daughter 8th. Rough week. My best friend had his last at 41. He occasionally sends me messages saying stuff like WTH I'm never gonna be able to pay for college with my 401k. He is a nurse and is just like what was I thinking.

 

[Timfoilhat]

We tried. Wife had some lady problems. We spent a lot of money on IVF and after a few attempts where something started and was lost days later we threw in the towel.
We considered adoption for a hot minute. Fact was that neither my wife nor I are right for adoption. We both feel like we'd be great guardians, but we'd never be parents. If the kid had problems with health or behavior issues we'd harbor regrets. Maybe people grow past those feelings when they actually have a kid, but it didn't feel right enough for us to pursue and throw more money at. Figured the poor kids deserve better than to have parents who don't have their hearts in it.

 

[ProfMagoo(ret)]

One stepson. Inherited him, so-to-say, when he was just 3 years old. Now he's 24 and a 1LT(19A) in the US Army. Huh, speaking of which, wedding anniversary is coming up in two days. Do I still have time to buy the wife a gun? Maybe another "cowboy" revolver ... I can store it for her on my left hip.

 

[Snal~]

Son 36, daughter 32, step son 32, step daughter 36, 3 grandsons....10, 10, and 3.

 

[SPST]

I'm glad I had mine young. I was 21 when the first was born and 23 for the second. Now I'm still young enough to ski, hike and bike with the grandkids!

 

[Cluck Norris]

I'm glad I had mine young. I was 21 when the first was born and 23 for the second. Now I'm still young enough to ski, hike and bike with the grandkids!

I was 22 when my first was born

 

[Ferrisfan]

Two kids, 16 and 13.

 

[fieldgrade]

I was 36 and 40 when mine arrived.

First grand baby is incoming as we speak.

 

[Amps 13]

1 daughter, 18 and in college

 

[Slacker]

Nope. By choice.
I think a billion people is plenty.

 

[fieldgrade]

I have had a lot of friends over the years, and there are many, years that is, that never had kids.

Jesus didn’t have any, and neither did that guy who wrote the better part of the entire New Testament, as far as we know anyway.

Kids ain’t for everybody. Mine have given me a run for the money. Mostly money, and not so much running. Too tired and too slow.

 

[ronn47]

2 daughters and 4 G-kids, 2 boys and 2 girls.

 

[BassicNate]

Wife and I tried but didn’t work out. Would really like to adopt but that seems like a dumpster fire these days.

 

[BASIL]

3, was told we would be lucky to have one... dr was wrong, the youngest one is 100% my clone.

Airplane ride? 1st pic.

 

[Tailhunter]

What ticks me off is people popping them out but want somebody else to pay for their arrival and existence.
If you can afford them fine but if you can’t or don’t want to than do us all a favor and don’t.

 

[Tailhunter]

I have had a lot of friends over the years, and there are many, years that is, that never had kids.

Jesus didn’t have any, and neither did that guy who wrote the better part of the entire New Testament, as far as we know anyway.

Kids ain’t for everybody. Mine have given me a run for the money. Mostly money, and not so much running. Too tired and too slow.

And it looks like it’s starting all over again for you, old man.

 

[Oneofsix]

4 kids, all in their 30s. 11 grands plus 2 in heaven.
Wouldn't change it for the world.

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[DCGallim]

6 of them. 13,11,8,6,4,2. Wouldn’t trade the world for one of them, wouldn’t give a dime for another. This is the little girl, stealer of pork rinds and fizzy waters. She’s going to have a tough dating life with 5 older brothers.

 

[fieldgrade]

And it looks like it’s starting all over again for you, old man.

Fortunately, I don’t expect to survive the teenage years.

 

[two fingers]

Too cute! Need stand-in grandparents? Have plenty ammo for them to shoot.😅

For the right kind of ammo, I'll make 'em cut your grass! 🤣

 

[Jayne]

Someone.once asked me who's gonna take care of you when you when you get old.
I told them, I'll use the money I saved by not having any and pay someone

We get that too. Told that we're selfish. Yet somehow creating some people and then burdening them with your care is somehow just fine. Usually ends that 'argument'.

 

[OUT of jersey]

The brady bunch,3 from 1st marriage. 2nd wife brought 3 of hers along. Have a 30yr.old step daughter with a 7yr old son who cant seem to find her way out of the house. But knows where the fridge and couch are.