Why do many parents try to guilt trip people into getting children?

[Helgrimm]

Parents have had kids before (obviously), so they're inclined to believe children make for a better life. They want grandchildren too. It's both a motive of self-interest and a view of ignorance on the part of the child. It depends case to case, it could be a selfish motive of wanting grandchildren, or one of that their children are making a mistake and won't realize until it is too late.

[Lex Icon]

We're also not "made" at all. Your choice of words here are a tad odd. It suggests some sort of will behind our existance when there is no such thing.

you do know how babies are made right?

[Aggrophobic]

you do know how babies are made right?

I do but there is no greater will behind that. Thats you wanting to jump into bed with someone. There is no design behind it, it's just you and hopefully the other person as well.

[enigma77]

Why is it difficult for some parents to understand that some people simply don't want any children?

Because you're wrong and you don't know it.

[Lex Icon]

I do but there is no greater will behind that. Thats you wanting to jump into bed with someone. There is no design behind it, it's just you and hopefully the other person as well.

i'm not suggesting it's some kind of gods will or whatever i'm not religious. i'm just saying it's in your dna.

[EnclosedOne]

Because you're wrong and you don't know it.

stop being so fucking arrogant. breeders aren't any better than non breeders and both do what they want for different but all ultimately selfish reasons. If anything non breeders have actually contemplated what it means to have kids on a deeper level than breeders and then decided it wasn't what they wanted.

[Daedius]

Peer pressured to suffer with them.

[enigma77]

stop being so fucking arrogant. breeders aren't any better than non breeders and both do what they want for different but all ultimately selfish reasons. If anything non breeders have actually contemplated what it means to have kids on a deeper level than breeders and then decided it wasn't what they wanted.

typical angry lonely sad person speaking here

make 2 kids and you'll be 200% happier

[EnclosedOne]

typical angry lonely sad person speaking here

make 2 kids and you'll be 200% happier

I not lonely at all. I'm happily married and neither me nor my hubby want kids. What I'm angry about is other people constantly trying to force convince me to pop out kids when I don't want them and have known I don't want them for basically my entire life and I'm not going to change my mind any time soon. The arrogance of people like you is so fucking annoying

[arandomuser]

ive been informed by very influential republicans that people not having children are actually part of a socialist plot to destroy america, and the only person who can save us is vladimir putin the former head of the kgb in the soviet union, but you just have to believe it!

[Cannibalus]

typical angry lonely sad person speaking here

make 2 kids and you'll be 200% happier

Stop being so ignorant, go back to my post and inform yourself a bit. You may actually learn something today.

[Draco-Onis]

I not lonely at all. I'm happily married and neither me nor my hubby want kids. What I'm angry about is other people constantly trying to force convince me to pop out kids when I don't want them and have known I don't want them for basically my entire life and I'm not going to change my mind any time soon. The arrogance of people like you is so fucking annoying

Get better friends and ignore annoying relatives it's your life they can fuck off having children is a huge individual choice your happiness is what is most important.

[MaddMyke]

...getting children like you run down to the market.

Well your asking life advice on a video game forum so you probably shouldn't have children.
Post to Facebook about it and be really productive, that is my advice.

Anyways my blood will carry on in my sons and daughter and you will be naught, carry on live well.

Peace be upon you

[Lex Icon]

Most people don't have sex to have kids. We do it because it feels good.

i'm fully aware of that but that doesn't change why you have reproductive organs. it's simple.
us finding ways to have fun with it is just a bonus.

there's no need to make elaborate excuses for not wanting kids. if you don't you don't. if someone is pestering you about it just tell them to fuck off.

[Uselessrouge]

you are just hanging around with the wrong people.

if someone wants to guild trip me for anything? i tell them to fuck and take care of there own life


But since the friends i have a normal we respect our choices even if we dont agree

[kamuimac]

Someone says that he/she does not want any children, and immediately the parental defence brigade arrives. "You'll mature someday and know better!", "Children are the best thing the world has to offer!", "WHY DO YOU HATE CHILDREN?!?" and "I thought I used to be happpy, but when I got my child I realise I was a miserable mess!" are things I've heard.

Why is it difficult for some parents to understand that some people simply don't want any children?
I want a relationship, but no children, and I'm getting sick and tired on having to defend myself from angry parents who seem to have lost all ability to see things from other's point of view the moment their little poop monster popped out.

because they envy them their care free life style and want them to suffer as much as they do

[OriginalName]

Well unfortunately nations and the planet as a whole has limited space and therefore resources to house an ever expanding population. I suggest thinking about other ways that citizens can contribute to the common good, I'm sure you can come up with a few.

There's not really a "we" here, i'm obviously referring to my own place of living but maybe we should hold world leaders accountable in the sense that you can't trust a person to make long term policy, world/nation altering decisions without children.

[LedZeppelin]

Lmao "guilty trip" = "Hey I have kids and I really love them. Are you gonna have kids someday?"

[Temp name]

A good, and easy, defence is to claim you're impotent. Or if you have a wife/girlfriend say she's not capable of carrying for medical reasons. Stops their bitching real fucking quick.

Or just say that you're gay. Ain't nobody expecting gay people to have kids

[Shadowsgrace]

Someone says that he/she does not want any children, and immediately the parental defence brigade arrives. "You'll mature someday and know better!", "Children are the best thing the world has to offer!", "WHY DO YOU HATE CHILDREN?!?" and "I thought I used to be happpy, but when I got my child I realise I was a miserable mess!" are things I've heard.

Why is it difficult for some parents to understand that some people simply don't want any children?
I want a relationship, but no children, and I'm getting sick and tired on having to defend myself from angry parents who seem to have lost all ability to see things from other's point of view the moment their little poop monster popped out.

Misery loves company. I look at the world around me and think to myself, this is no place to raise a child. My opinion, nothing will change it, unless there is a fundamental change in Society as a whole, world wide.