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Current Events => The DUmpster => Topic started by: formerlurker on July 25, 2011, 07:53:24 PM
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DerekG (1000+ posts) Mon Jul-25-11 06:35 PM
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Anyone else glad that they're childless?
My life is monumentally screwed-up, but I find consolation in the fact that I never brought children into the world. There's something liberating in knowing that whatever malady afflicts me, it's mine alone. No "hostages to fate."
Does anyone share this sentiment?
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=105x9743248
30 Helens agree... we are all glad you are childless.
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Translation: I lonely and alone. I am such a jerk I could never talk a woman into sharing her life with me.
...and I get laid as often as Steve Numbers.
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DerekG (1000+ posts) Mon Jul-25-11 06:35 PM
Original message
Anyone else glad that they're childless? My life is monumentally screwed-up, but I find consolation in the fact that I never brought children into the world. There's something liberating in knowing that whatever malady afflicts me, it's mine alone. No "hostages to fate."
Does anyone share this sentiment?
The line in red, says it all. Liberating,....... :devious:
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I am childless too, but not by choice!!
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Thank goodness no child had to be brought up in your home, DerekG.
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Believe me, DUmmies, we're eternally grateful for the fact that your gene pool grows shallower by the day, and with a little luck, will dry up for good very soon.
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DerekG (1000+ posts) Mon Jul-25-11 06:35 PM
Original message
Anyone else glad that they're childless?
My life is monumentally screwed-up, but I find consolation in the fact that I never brought children into the world. There's something liberating in knowing that whatever malady afflicts me, it's mine alone. No "hostages to fate."
Does anyone share this sentiment?
I'm glad you are childless too dummy. Us taxpayers are getting stretched kinda thin taking care of you parasite's offspring.
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I'm glad you are childless too dummy. Us taxpayers are getting stretched kinda thin taking care of you parasite's offspring.
No doubt - I'm more than happy to take care of and pay for my own children...I'm just sick of having to pay for the DUmmies' offspring.
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A lot of DUmp democrats are childless because their children ended up in the medical waste at a Planned Parenthood slaughterhouse.
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Trust me, DG, we wish your parents were.
Have a nice day, and thank them, while you're at it.
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Wow, you have to really work at screwing up your life badly enough that you would be thankful that you don't have children that would be affected by it. :loser:
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30 Helens agree...
I got that reference. :-)
And I think Mr. Mann's translation is correct.
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It's for the best. I can't recall any of htem who do have children ever posting anything about how well they turned out, it is always about their drug busts, prison time, or other life wreckage.
I can't imagine what my life would have been like without kids, they're a trial but a blessing at the same time.
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graywarrior (1000+ posts) Mon Jul-25-11 07:45 PM
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3. Hell, yeah!
Had I had kids, they would HATE me now.
I think everyone already hates you.
Denninmi (889 posts) Mon Jul-25-11 10:50 PM
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13. God yes!
I hate kids. I've always hated kids. Whiny and annoying, few of them are well behaved any more, although that's the parents fault, not the child's.
I have pets. All of the advantages, few of the disadvantages.
Some very revealing responses in that thread.
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I think everyone already hates you.
Some very revealing responses in that thread.
WOW, just WOW...I wonder why he hates kids so much.. Wasn't he a child himself once??
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A lot of DUmp democrats are childless because their children ended up in the medical waste at a Planned Parenthood slaughterhouse.
Excellent post.
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WOW, just WOW...I wonder why he hates kids so much.. Wasn't he a child himself once??
Not a human one.
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Meh, why do I need kids? I already contribute to raising thousands of them through taxes.
And if there's one thing that pisses me off it's people having more kids so they can't get more money.
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"Whiny and annoying, few of them are well behaved any more, although that's the parents fault, not the child's."
Ironically enough, much of that is due to the rise in liberal "Parenting" methods in which any sort of discipline is condemned as "Harming children's self- esteem" or "Stifling their creativity" or some crap like that, which in turn results in children learning they can walk all over everyone and do whatever they want. As another poster noted, there's a reason why so many DUmmies who are parents make posts about how screwed up their kids are.
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How do those dumbasses think their little ponzi scheme is going to work without replacing the population?
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30 Helens agree
I knew I liked you :D -TKitH is one of Canada's finest exports.
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I don't know about anyone else, but I sure as hell am glad DerekG is childless.
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Meh, why do I need kids? I already contribute to raising thousands of them through taxes.
And if there's one thing that pisses me off it's people having more kids so they can't get more money.
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I must say there is a darn good reason why humans can conceive in the very young years, it is callled sanity and strength.
Raising a human is not a job for the weak or those with little stamina, Hardest job in the world.
I hear the story of folks that delay having children until they are in late 30's due to economic reasons. To the horror of some woman they find that their eggs are non viable, past abortions have left them sterile or they no longer have a partner to help raise a child.
Then the woman that can conceive at 35-40+, these are the woman that are on top of the world when they find they are finally pregnant, all the fun of the baby showers, WoHO .
After the baby is born and 6-8 weeks later they come back to work and are a nervous wreck, fall asleep at work or spend all their time calling the sitter. Some of their work mates may all ready be grand parents, not too happy to do their own work and the work of of someone their own age.
Youth is the key here, only the young have the ability to juggle school, work, home and childcare at the same time.
I was stunned to hear day care costs over $100 a week per child in some places. One gives birth to twins----OUCH.
Those of us that were young that raised our kids had good health and the ability to keep up with the kids. The kids are now gone to raise their own and we get to handle the grand kids when we wish, still have 20+ years of work ahead of us without the chaos of baby's and young kids, can look back on the GOOD OLD DAYS and wonder how we survived them.
One should not raise children unless they realise this is a life time work in progress. Everything in life one knows changes, your life is now for that child. Times get difficult and the child still need milk and when the cost is the same as a pack of cigarette's, unless you give the child breakfast of cereal with water, you must quit smoking. Kids get brand new clothes, parents get used at GoodWill.
Now for us who managed to get our kids raised up at and early age and off on their own, we worked and did without for 20 years and can now go forward with a new life====UNTIL.
Here comes a son they paid to educate but has fallen on hard times, needs you to support them as if he was a 10 year old. While he "looks" for a JOB YOU ARE EXPECTED TO FEED HIM, DO HIS LAUNDRY, PAY HIS BILLS.--------Worse is when he comes home with a jail record, a strange woman and 2 kids.
Along comes a daughter with 2 kids that needs to find her self and dumps her baby's on your door step, sad, just when you get the kids in school and use to a secure life she comes back and drags them out to live with some biker she met and gets welfare and section 8 housing.
I can see this posters point, takes allot of balls to raise a kid, educate then then throw them out of the nest, some of us have the smarts to do so , others of us let down our guard and do more harm allowing the kids back home.
Complicated thing family relations, I my self can finally breath after raising and education my kids, took awhile as some of them kept coming back to MOMMY but I learned.
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You said it, Vesta, Youth is the key here, only the young have the ability to juggle school, work, home and childcare at the same time.
This is your second post that has made alot of sense to me this morning. I think I need more coffee. :-)
Seriously though, in this day and age, we grandparents often end up with the grandkids. My son lives with us now, and his son half the time. I'm 50 years older than the little dynamo. Hard to keep up with him while his dad and grandfather are working. He goes to morning daycare so that's some relief, but man oh man does he wear my ass out by the end of the day. We love having them here, as it beats not seeing them much.
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The better half and I were blessed with two magnificent sons. Funny thing, her ob/gyn had told her she could never have children. It wasn't until my brother decided to have his mid life crisis and abandon his two
sons and daughter on my front porch. Imagine opening your front door, three teens standing at a door with
Hefty bags of their clothes and crying. It was pure hell for the first year. Getting kids off drugs and actually
giving a heck about school. All this and better half conceives. The first born helped bring all of us together,
and glad to say that it truly was a blessing.
I'd like to say that the niece and nephews went on to become doctors and lawyers. They didn't. They
graduated HS and learned trades and now have their own families and responsibilities.... and I wouldn't trade it for all the tea in China.
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.... and I wouldn't trade it for all the tea in China.
And there you go, in a nutshell. Kids will drive you absolutely insane. You'll find yourself doing all the things Bill Cosby talked about...
"No one in this house will ever touch anyone else in this house ever again, do you understand me??" "Look at me when I'm talking to you...wipe that look off your face...do you hear me??? Who said you could TALK?????"
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When your kid runs off and across a road the first time, or actually gets hurt doing something stupid, you snatch him up..."Are you OK? Are YOU OK????" Then when he is ok...you beat his butt, "Don't you EVER do that again!!!!!" :rotf: :rotf:
Then you cry yourself to sleep that night 'cause you could have lost your baby, and then you spanked him!! :rotf: :rotf:
But man, when that "baby" is 30 years old with his own babies, a good job, a nice house... :yahoo: You wouldn't trade that roller coaster, work-your-tail-off time for anything...anything at all.
The DUmp denizens that are glad they missed that...just as stupid as all their other "wisdom." Go ahead and be glad, lurkers. You don't deserve children. Every single child is a blessing from God, and only the morons throw those blessings away and celebrate doing so.
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You said it, Vesta, Youth is the key here, only the young have the ability to juggle school, work, home and childcare at the same time.
This is your second post that has made alot of sense to me this morning. I think I need more coffee. :-)
Seriously though, in this day and age, we grandparents often end up with the grandkids. My son lives with us now, and his son half the time. I'm 50 years older than the little dynamo. Hard to keep up with him while his dad and grandfather are working. He goes to morning daycare so that's some relief, but man oh man does he wear my ass out by the end of the day. We love having them here, as it beats not seeing them much.
We lived with my dad for a time after my mom died, and I swear that Viv is what kept him from being depressed. Seeing her every day was really good for him-and he misses her a lot now that we have moved and he's working more (he's retired but works part time at Home Depot.) I know it makes him sad that he doesn't see the girls as much as he would like, but we do make every effort to see him as often as we can. And it really warms my heart to see my dad with my girls...I get a glimpse as to what he must have been like when I was that young.
Also, everything Bill Cosby said is true. I have found myself behaving much like he characterizes his wife, and all I can do is laugh. :rotf:
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As in the story of Mr. Scrooge and Xmas past. Take time to visit a friend or relative in a nursing home.
There you will find the saddest people on earth. ----Both sides of the coin one can say.
Those who never had children or close family ties to their relatives, some have memorabilia of lives lived to the fullest extent, traveled the world amassed tons of money-----But most of their family and friends they have outlived, at times these people in 8-10+ years have not had one visitor to speak of memories they shared from 60 years ago.
Then the people that also have not had one family member or friend visit for same length of time that may have 8 children and great grand kids that never visit, call or send a post card to. WHY??
Some of the lovely old timers may have abused their children or abandoned them, some were placed in the nursing home to gain controll of their money or estate. Guilt keeps the family from visiting, they just want that member to die to get that monkey off their back.
Sad except for the patients that have regular visits from family, the staff expects the family and the patient is---how can we say just a bit cleaner and more tended to then the ones never visited.
We just have a very short time on earth to raise our children and then years to see the mistakes we made with them. Cats in the Cradle with a silver spoon----comes to mind, possibly the greatest song on father son relations ever written.
As is said, " a son is a son until he takes a wife, a daughter is a daughter for the rest of your life. "
Then the old saying " An ungrateful child cuts deeper then a Serpents tooth "
The decision to have or have not children is now up to each, youth lasts 18 years, young adult another 20 or so. If you figure that in late 40ies going into the age friends become grandparents, and the possible 30+ years ahead of you, what does one have to look forward to in the last years of life with no Children, few to remember you when you were young????? ----- :bawl: :bawl:
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A lot of DUmp democrats are childless because their children ended up in the medical waste at a Planned Parenthood slaughterhouse.
Exactly! Notice it doesn't clue us in on how many children it's killed over the years in order to remain childless!