not having kids (2 Viewers)

[Catwoman]

My crib was a chest of drawers initially, they never said if they closed it when I cried.

I'd say the temptation would have been great...

 

[Froog]

voluntary human extinction movement:


www.vhemt.org

 

[Jill Hives]

Christ. That's depressing. I'm sure a lot of people would make good parents but wouldn't necessarily have that amount of ready cash.

It is. They go over your financial status and complete background. If you don't have a high enough income in relation to any debt you may have = no kid for you. Most of the time that debt could be something like college loans in the states. Off topic a bit but see below....no, I am not bitter.

Take Emily Weinberg, 23, of Fairfax, Va. Weinberg graduated last year from Ithaca College in New York with a bachelor's degree in cinema and photography. Her student-loan debt exceeds $130,000.

When she was admitted to Ithaca, Weinberg says, she thought she'd qualify for a scholarship that would have covered most of her costs. She didn't get the scholarship. Yet, her parents' income and savings were too high for her to qualify for financial aid.

Her parents had saved more than $97,000 for her college education. But when the tech bubble burst in 2000, their college savings shrank to $23,000. With interest rates low, Weinberg borrowed.

Now, Weinberg, who works as a Web-content administrator in the Washington, D.C., area, devotes $1,200 of her $2,100 monthly take-home pay to her student loans. She lives with her boyfriend, who helps cover rent and other expenses. (Weinberg says she's required to pay only $791 a month toward her loans, but that would cover only the interest and would make her total balance expand even more.) Her dream of starting a photography studio remains just that — a dream. "This is not at all what I wanted to be," she says.

 

[broken arm]

Christ. That's depressing. I'm sure a lot of people would make good parents but wouldn't necessarily have that amount of ready cash.

especially after many goes at IVF at €8000 a go (including travel - time off work etc)

Also the process takes so many years you just have to save.

 

[Diddles]

especially after many goes at IVF at €8000 a go (including travel - time off work etc)

Also the process takes so many years you just have to save.

So, when are you having kids

Edit: in reference to your first post and not to IVF

 

[broken arm]

So, when are you having kids

Edit: in reference to your first post and not to IVF

ah here, we're going out 10 years in a few months. ask me then.

 

[Jill Hives]

Out of curiosity, how many males would consider a woman differently if they knew she could have children? Meaning, would you find her less attractive or a less suitable mate after finding out? Of course, knowing early in the relationship not after years of being together.

 

[Unicron]

Out of curiosity, how many males would consider a woman differently if they knew she could have children? Meaning, would you find her less attractive or a less suitable mate after finding out? Of course, knowing early in the relationship not after years of being together.

Think of the contracption savings.

 

[cephalopod]

Out of curiosity, how many males would consider a woman differently if they knew she could have children? Meaning, would you find her less attractive or a less suitable mate after finding out? Of course, knowing early in the relationship not after years of being together.

Could have children or couldn't have children? It would be very important to me, as I want to have children, but I couldn't comment on how I would feel if I was in love with a woman who couldn't have children. Also, when would be an appropriate time to divulge such information? Equally applicable to infertile men I hasten to add.

 

[SONYMEGADRIVE]

i'd certainly keep doing my best to impregnate her

 

[Jill Hives]

Could have children or couldn't have children? It would be very important to me, as I want to have children, but I couldn't comment on how I would feel if I was in love with a woman who couldn't have children. Also, when would be an appropriate time to divulge such information? Equally applicable to infertile men I hasten to add.

Good question.

I was thinking in terms of medically not being able to carry a child to term.

 

[Anthony]

Wake up people. They only reason extended family people say shit like this to you is because they have absolutely nothing in common with you and don't know what else to say.

 

[Pantone247]

Out of curiosity, how many males would consider a woman differently if they knew she could have children?

Could have children or couldn't have children? It would be very important to me, as I want to have children,

adoption?

just cause you can't physically have kids doesn't mean you can't be a parent

 

[Space]

adoption?

just cause you can't physically have kids doesn't mean you can't be a parent

30K

 

[Pantone247]

30K

is that a smiley emoticon that I don't understand?

 

[Space]

is that a smiley emoticon that I don't understand?

No that's the rough cost of adopting a kid these days according to someone else in this thread.

 

[Pantone247]

yeah just read that, while I am no "researcher of child stuff" I have to raise my eyebrows at that, and the idea that the only way to adopt foregin is to "buy your baby"

lucky none of yis want kids, wha!

 

[Pantone247]

Adoption Fees in Ireland:

Attorney fees: Vary depending on the firm and the complexity of the case:
Adoption Agency fees: No Fees
Health Board fees: No Fees
Adoption Board fees: No Fees
Estimated average cost to parents of adoption in Ireland: No maximum


http://travel.state.gov/family/adoption/country/country_402.html

 

[pete]

I heard there's a massive. watng list and some fairly onerous requrements which, if applied to the entire. populaton, would decimate the country in a couple of generatons.

 

[ernesto]

I heard there's a massive. watng list and some fairly onerous requrements which, if applied to the entire. populaton, would decimate the country in a couple of generatons.

explain please petey