I have FOUR boys should I try for a girl?
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You do you OP. We have 2 boys and are going to try for one more and hopefully it's a girl but if it's not it's not, regardless I'm shutting this shit down after that.
Oh, I thought you meant I was sexist since I don't care about it.
Most of developed world have huge problem with low fertility rates (You have soon more elderly than kids in many countries) so I don't get these posts.
But that isn't what he is saying, since a child from a country outside the develope world is as good to address your post.
Of course, there is a biological drive to create your own offspring.
Oh. Yeah. I have nothing against adoption as it's great option too. Maybe I should have picked different post. I just kinda cringe when I read ''world is overpopulated'' stuff so often nowadays. Even developing countries have constantly decreasing fertility rates. In 100 years we wonder how we could get people to get kids in every part of the world as the human population starts to fall off the cliff (assuming there is no miracle medicine to make people live far longer)
You should get another kid if you want another kid. You shouldn't let gender decide how you feel about your kid and how you raise it.
I love kids, but I think we're done at 3. I'm turning 37 in December and she's 32.
The biggest factor for us is affording another child. Also, my wife is a school teacher, and she's not into having to deal with more kids.
I'm a bit opposite in that stance, I'd have 10 kids if I could afford it. They don't overwhelm me like I see it do to others. Love spending time with them and watching/helping them grow into little people. I'd rather pile on the couch with all my kids and watch a movie or kick a ball around outside than go out and do anything else.
The biggest factor for us is affording another child. Also, my wife is a school teacher, and she's not into having to deal with more kids.
I'm a bit opposite in that stance, I'd have 10 kids if I could afford it. They don't overwhelm me like I see it do to others. Love spending time with them and watching/helping them grow into little people. I'd rather pile on the couch with all my kids and watch a movie or kick a ball around outside than go out and do anything else.
If you can afford another child, and you both want to have another one, then go for it. But don't do it just for the chance at having a girl, because you're just setting yourself up for disappointment (if you have a fifth boy).
I wanted to have one boy and one girl just to know what it's like to raise one from either sex, but had two girls instead. My wife and I didn't want more than two (plus we can't afford it), so that's where we stopped, but I wouldn't trade those two stinkers for anything in the world.
I wanted to have one boy and one girl just to know what it's like to raise one from either sex, but had two girls instead. My wife and I didn't want more than two (plus we can't afford it), so that's where we stopped, but I wouldn't trade those two stinkers for anything in the world.
Has the OP even said anything else in this thread? This seems like a ridiculous question to ask randos on the internet.
- The world is overpopulated. First world countries style of living is not sustainable if everyone in lived like that and third world countries are catching up. Look at some studies https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Earth_Overshoot_Day
- Having less kids is different from overpopulation, people don't suddenly die when they have kids, look at these predictions for world population https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Projections_of_population_growth#World_population_in_2050
You seriously have too positive of an outlook for the future. The reality is people are pushing back against your gorgeous green future. Will we get there? Sure but I sincerely doubt well get there in my lifetime? That is doubtful, people overall want a greener earth but are also overall not willing to make the nesesary sacrifices to achieve it in a 10 to 20 year timeline.
also, "Population control"? No one here wants to force the OP into anything the choice is his and his wife's but having a kid is not a choice that should be made lightly. There are many repercussions to it and it affects all of us. OP should definitely be aware of that.
Your situation sounds like my wife and I, but reversed. Turning 37 on Monday, wife is 33, we have 3 kids now and I'm good but she wants to have another. I can see why from her point of view, as she sees herself getting older and a woman's window for having children closes much quicker than a man's. I think I've talked her out of a child if she can have a dog, lol :)
Takes OP a while to filter out his /pol/ rhetoric when he posts here as opposed to other places.
kids arent expensive after daycare. at least on a monthly basis.
my son is 16. daughter is 5 in school now and were pregnant again.
....I had 1 year of not paying 800 a month in daycare and bam got her preggo again.
One day Ill have a new vehicle....one day
oh come on. his having a baby does not affect you. maybe if Everyone alive got pregnant now than yes wed be fucked.
maybe his 5th kid cures cancer and people are telling him notnto have them
lol
Everyone who cares if we leave a decent planet for the next generation...
In the current world, all of my efforts to reduce my carbon footprint will amount to roughly one 20th of the carbon footprint that another human being will generate in their lifetime.
So in a way it makes my efforts not as valuable. There is a very very very veeery slight chance the kid will cure sure sure. Lets count that as a positive. But a certainty that the kid will impact the environment. That will be a negative
Im just saying OP should measure the positive and negative impacts in his choice.
Pol is short for Leopold, a name traditionally given to the seventh child in a family in a western European country.
What kind of bs is this? I grew up with 4 siblings and my parents were the absolute best. There were few days where my parents weren't around constantly. To be honest, I was actually glad when I could escape them for a few hours hanging with friends.
I have two girls, love them, but wanted a boy too. Had a vasectomy yesterday. I'm 47 so that ship has sailed.
man I get what you are saying. I do but what if this guy and his family are good people and raise good kids that become good adults.
This world may not need a ton of babies but it needs good people.
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