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Jul. 15th, 2003 09:38 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
percivalcross posted from the Quill
I'd like as many children as I can have, for several reasons:
- I'm an only child, and my parents are quite fixated on me; they are lonely people, and they would never consider going into an old people's home. So I am about to start training as a holistic therapist to make sure I can create a job for myself at home if I need to in a couple of years time, because I will have to be the one to see them through their old age. I have NO cousins, aunts or uncles to help me, because my parents are only children themselves.
Parents of only children, set them free. Please don't expect them to look after you and provide for you, or if you do expect that, be flexible in where you live out your life. make sure they can be independent. They will care for you tenderly if they need to, but if they do not feel *forced* to be there for you, your relationship will be all the richer and closer for it.
- My husband and I are having fertility problems at the moment. I am 29. By the time my first comes along, I will be 30 or 31. If we take into account the normal sex life slump after child birth, and the fact that it will have taken us ages to conceive number one, I figure that we will end up with two or three children by the time I become completely infertile. I'm now so desperate that I'm ready to accept every child as a blessing from God. Thy will be done.
- I was a lonely child, and would have loved to have brothers and sisters. As a kid, I wanted to have at least four kids.
Finally, for all those parents of only kids who keep getting told that their kids will miss out or be socially challenged: PM me and I will give you some references with which you can SMAX them scientifically.
I'd like as many children as I can have, for several reasons:
- I'm an only child, and my parents are quite fixated on me; they are lonely people, and they would never consider going into an old people's home. So I am about to start training as a holistic therapist to make sure I can create a job for myself at home if I need to in a couple of years time, because I will have to be the one to see them through their old age. I have NO cousins, aunts or uncles to help me, because my parents are only children themselves.
Parents of only children, set them free. Please don't expect them to look after you and provide for you, or if you do expect that, be flexible in where you live out your life. make sure they can be independent. They will care for you tenderly if they need to, but if they do not feel *forced* to be there for you, your relationship will be all the richer and closer for it.
- My husband and I are having fertility problems at the moment. I am 29. By the time my first comes along, I will be 30 or 31. If we take into account the normal sex life slump after child birth, and the fact that it will have taken us ages to conceive number one, I figure that we will end up with two or three children by the time I become completely infertile. I'm now so desperate that I'm ready to accept every child as a blessing from God. Thy will be done.
- I was a lonely child, and would have loved to have brothers and sisters. As a kid, I wanted to have at least four kids.
Finally, for all those parents of only kids who keep getting told that their kids will miss out or be socially challenged: PM me and I will give you some references with which you can SMAX them scientifically.
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Date: 2003-07-15 08:57 am (UTC)I would like eight children or so myself, were I ever to be married. We live in a part of the world where we can definitely support them. Overpopulation is not exactly a Canadian problem! While it isn't easy to have a lot of kids, I think it's quite a worthwhile endeavour. I think now that I'm twenty I appreciate my siblings so much more than when I was little (even though I generally liked them then). It's great to know that I have a large number of people available for me to fall back on all through my life. (And if any guy harasses me, I just have to mention that I have two brothers over six feet tall... :-) I also think that having eight kids had a very positive effect on my parents' personality! If I'd be an only child, I have a feeling that my father especially would have been the sort of person who can't let go of his kid's life. Obessive-compulsiveness runs in the family, I think. I know I've got a large dose of it. We need lots of kids to loosen us up, and give us lots to do!
Which, btw, is why I think Percy Weasley needs a very large family... I know most people tend to give him fewer than the other Weasleys, but the Percys in life are actually the ones who need a few children. Stops them from making their one kid a "project child." All my best friends in high school were project children, and I don't envy them that experience.
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