concordtom said:
Eastern Oregon Bear said:
concordtom said:
Eastern Oregon Bear said:
concordtom said:
Huh.
And here I was kind of thinking cardiovascular.
That's what they want us Muggles to think.
And how old are Your children?
As soon as I have some, I'll let you know.
Argument FOR having children = increased population = increased consumption and production = increased GDP. In other words, it's an economic plus.
Argument AGAINST having children =
Good luck! 
My wife and I had no great philosophical debate about whether to have children or not. Perhaps I was too picky and too much of a wallflower, but I never found someone I wanted to marry until I was around 40. I met my wife almost by accident in an online forum, we exchanged emails and then phone calls and soon found we hit it off together. Unfortunately, I had moved to the Washington DC area to attend graduate school and it turned out she was living in Hayward. We had both lived in Oakland for years just a few miles apart and never met. Between finishing up my Masters degree and getting established in my career, we had a long distance relationship for several years before she moved to North Dakota to be with me and we got married. As a girl from the Gulf Coast (before she moved to the Bay Area), I knew she must have really loved me to want to move to North Dakota. By that time, we were in our mid 40s and even if we had wanted to have children, she had had a hysterectomy before we ever met, so children were not in the cards. I'm not sure I'd quite call it regret, but I've wondered how my life would have been different if we had children. She has always said she didn't want to have children and I was ambivalent as it is a big responsibility and I'm selfish enough to want to be free to do things without having to put my children's needs ahead of that. Maybe that's my coping strategy, I don't know, So, maybe it's just as well. Short of adoption, children couldn't happen for us anyway.
