It\u2019s that age old question isn\u2019t it? Do you want kids? For some that\u2019s the ultimate dream, to have their own offspring; running around on their freshly trimmed lawn with a white picket fence. However for others such as myself I couldn\u2019t think of anything worse.<\/p>\n
Fair enough they\u2019re sweet and cute but just like a paracetamol you pop the morning after a night out, the high will fade and you\u2019ll soon come crashing down to a world of unnecessary screaming and literal shit everywhere.<\/p>\n
I could dress the mini-me in all the latest trends, oh how cute! However, having a little human that you need to care for at least for 18 years is it not such a good thought. I guess with a child comes a whole lot of responsibility and how can someone who still religiously plays online dress up games be a responsible *gulp* parent?!<\/p>\n
The LGBTQ community has come such a long way, on a tiresome albeit fulfilling journey to the right of equality. There are so many options for same sex couples now to have children, whether that\u2019s through adoption, surrogacy or insemination which is obviously a fantastic thing but for me personally I can\u2019t quite comprehend why we, even as individuals stripped away of labels, are expected to reproduce and have children?<\/p>\n
Throughout time there has been a massive lie floating around in the air that women are built with a maternal instinct and this innate feeling and longing to be a mother. It can be said there a few reasons why women are actively choosing not to have children. For some it\u2019s a matter of being environmentally friendly (a recent study stated reproduction was one of the most dangerous things we can do the planet), for others it just comes down to the fact they\u2019re focused on their career and for the some it\u2019s simply they don\u2019t want to conform to the expectations of being a woman. Women are constantly reminded that motherhood is the hardest job ever yet they are vilified for saying they don\u2019t want it?<\/p>\n
We\u2019ve expressed our desire to have dogs, but no children. I mean, imagine coming home from a long and tiresome day at work to find a gorgeous little dog wagging its tail and flapping it\u2019s tongue, how picturesque! However what if that same dog was instead a crying baby with the incapability of telling you what exactly is wrong with them causing stress and screaming (and that\u2019s just from you.)\u00a0It\u2019s funny because people say, \u201coh wait until there\u2019s a little Joey running about.\u201d As if that\u2019s the only logical thing to achieve. Well why can\u2019t it just be Joey and Jack? (Plus our pug called Patsy and our Dalmatian called Olive)<\/p>\n
\u201cIt was what you did back in the day. You got married then had children.\u201d You could argue that their generation was a lot more shut up and carry on with it. Awful marriage? Shut up and carry on with it. Loathe your job? Shut up and carry on with it. It was a time where thinking of yourself was frowned upon; the more of yourself you sacrificed the more you were appreciated. It was shameful to leave a bad marriage, you were seen as weak, inconsiderate and disloyal. Now it\u2019s shameful to stay. In that (bizarre) world children made sense, but this is a new era. Our generation puts ourselves first, we are more self-aware.<\/p>\n
It\u2019s a message we should all live by (I may or may not chant in to myself every morning in front of the mirror…) It\u2019s about what YOU want to do with your life. For some that may entail children, but for me I think I\u2019ll stick to my online dress up games.<\/p>\n
It\u2019s that age old question isn\u2019t it? Do you want kids? For some that\u2019s the ultimate dream, to have their own offspring; running around on their freshly trimmed lawn with a white picket fence. However for others such as myself I couldn\u2019t think of anything worse. In fact, aside from my little brothers and nephew…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":25001,"featured_media":139581,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":true},"categories":[1805],"tags":[17065,17066,16295],"thb-sponsors":[],"class_list":["post-139580","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-relationships","tag-children","tag-dont-want-children","tag-millennial"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\n