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Community => Parenting Beyond Belief => Topic started by: MadBomr101 on April 24, 2020, 02:48:02 AM

Title: I Have This to Say
Post by: MadBomr101 on April 24, 2020, 02:48:02 AM
I have no children due to reasons. So I have nothing of value to contribute to this whole thread.

This is my final post here. :(

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Title: Re: I Have This to Say
Post by: Dark Lightning on April 24, 2020, 03:52:41 AM
Sorry.
Title: Re: I Have This to Say
Post by: Tank on April 24, 2020, 06:31:25 AM
Quote from: MadBomr101 on April 24, 2020, 02:48:02 AM
I have no children due to reasons. So I have nothing of value to contribute to this whole thread.

This is my final post here. :(

Post 5 of 25

Hang on! What did I miss?
Title: Re: I Have This to Say
Post by: MadBomr101 on April 24, 2020, 07:51:06 AM
Quote from: Tank on April 24, 2020, 06:31:25 AM
Quote from: MadBomr101 on April 24, 2020, 02:48:02 AM
I have no children due to reasons. So I have nothing of value to contribute to this whole thread.

This is my final post here. :(

Post 5 of 25

Hang on! What did I miss?

Nothing but since I owe you 25 posts I'm going to try and spread them out in all the different threads even the ones that don't really apply to me. I just meant this is my last post in the Parenting thread.

Well, 20 now.
Title: Re: I Have This to Say
Post by: Tank on April 24, 2020, 07:57:05 AM
Quote from: MadBomr101 on April 24, 2020, 07:51:06 AM
Quote from: Tank on April 24, 2020, 06:31:25 AM
Quote from: MadBomr101 on April 24, 2020, 02:48:02 AM
I have no children due to reasons. So I have nothing of value to contribute to this whole thread.

This is my final post here. :(

Post 5 of 25

Hang on! What did I miss?

Nothing but since I owe you 25 posts I'm going to try and spread them out in all the different threads even the ones that don't really apply to me. I just meant this is my last post in the Parenting thread.

Well, 20 now.

Ah! You had me worried there!
Title: Re: I Have This to Say
Post by: Asmodean on April 24, 2020, 11:03:38 AM
I have no children either - I prefer living alone and when they are small, kids annoy me.

Here's to our contribution to the environment! Most of our environmental footprint will not long survive us, while for those pesky parents, it will likely be just beginning at the point of their death.  :cheers:

This was today's silver lining - Asmostyle  ;D
Title: Re: I Have This to Say
Post by: viocjit on April 24, 2020, 02:18:54 PM
I have no children and I don't want to raise children because I think we are going to an ecologic collapse.
Is this good for anyone to live in a world with a lack of resource , wars , low conditions of life ?

I have no children and I don't want to raise children because I don't want he became potentially the citizen of a dictatorship.
Today the country in which I live for which I'm a citizen (France) is a democracy (Dysfunctional and with a lot of default but a democratic state by Western standard and compared to the majority of states in the world) but a political regime (In French Republic the ongoing regime is the Vth Republic and it did evolved a lot since its enactment in 1958) isn't eternal and no one known what will succeeded to this ?
I hope we would have a better regime that will succeeded it but I fear the successor will be worse.
Title: Re: I Have This to Say
Post by: billy rubin on April 24, 2020, 06:44:05 PM
i have five kids because i want to change the world.
Title: Re: I Have This to Say
Post by: Dark Lightning on April 24, 2020, 07:06:43 PM
I have three sons. I would've liked more children but the wife wasn't up to it. They're all happy heathens, so I did something right.
Title: Re: I Have This to Say
Post by: MadBomr101 on April 25, 2020, 03:23:48 PM
We tried to make a baby on numerous occasions but when that failed we turned to medical science, but when that failed we tried adoption, but when that failed and we were out of any other practical options, we gave up.
Title: Re: I Have This to Say
Post by: Tank on April 26, 2020, 09:54:20 AM
Quote from: MadBomr101 on April 25, 2020, 03:23:48 PM
We tried to make a baby on numerous occasions but when that failed we turned to medical science, but when that failed we tried adoption, but when that failed and we were out of any other practical options, we gave up.

That's a great shame. :(
Title: Re: I Have This to Say
Post by: Ecurb Noselrub on April 27, 2020, 07:26:28 PM
I have no biological children but married twice to women who had kids, so I helped raise them.  It's had mixed results. The grand kids are an improvement, however.  I will not be passing my genes along to the next generation - that's probably a blessing for them.
Title: Re: I Have This to Say
Post by: Icarus on April 28, 2020, 03:33:41 AM
Good on you Bruce.

I married a wonderful woman who had a three year old.  I tried my damndest to be a good father figure. Little league, soapbox derby, slot car contests, bicycles, workshop training, and all that sort of thing. Yes I did love him as if my own progeny. Somehow that did not result in the way I had so fervently hoped.
Title: Re: I Have This to Say
Post by: Essie Mae on April 28, 2020, 09:43:32 AM
Quote from: Dark Lightning on April 24, 2020, 07:06:43 PM
I have three sons. I would've liked more children but the wife wasn't up to it. They're all happy heathens, so I did something right.
Well done. I have two grown up children, both Christians due to my influence, who would be devastated if they knew I lost my faith over time, realising seven years ago that it was gone for ever.
Title: Re: I Have This to Say
Post by: billy rubin on April 28, 2020, 12:29:02 PM
well thats a play in three acts, im sure. not diminishing the difficulty at all. a hard relationship to balance.

ive got agnotics and christians both in my immediate household. quakerism is easier onnontheists than the protestants are , for sure.
Title: Re: I Have This to Say
Post by: MadBomr101 on April 30, 2020, 12:48:44 PM
Quote from: Essie Mae on April 28, 2020, 09:43:32 AMWell done. I have two grown up children, both Christians due to my influence, who would be devastated if they knew I lost my faith over time, realising seven years ago that it was gone for ever.

You found your way out maybe they can too. Pray for them.

Wait! No, scratch that last part.
Title: Re: I Have This to Say
Post by: Prycejosh1987 on August 16, 2023, 09:27:01 PM
Quote from: MadBomr101 on April 24, 2020, 02:48:02 AMI have no children due to reasons. So I have nothing of value to contribute to this whole thread.

This is my final post here. :(

Post 5 of 25
I believe you can have children if you decide to seek the answers and explore opportunities. Faith helps us to do things and get things we cannot get in our natural line of actions.
Title: Re: I Have This to Say
Post by: billy rubin on August 17, 2023, 12:30:40 AM
i have five children, or so my lovely wife tells me.

mostly adults now

one lives on tbe big city and dispatches international shipping

another is a forester

another is an apprentice electrician

anither is heading for the merchant marine

and one more wants to try out being a hot shot

all brainy, mostly forsaking higher education