Do you believe people are obligated to have kids?

[Anonymous]

Family members, in particular? Daughters, sons, siblings, cousins, etc.

Yes. Everyone should have kids.

No. Have kids if you want them, don't have kids if you don't want them.

Members of my family, yes. I couldn't care less about other people's decisions.

Anyone who wouldn't be a terrible parent should have kids.

I don't know.

[DaisyM23]

earth's overpopulated as it is now, and with the way things are going i wouldn't want to bring someone into this world, but also no one's required to have kids if they don't want to and people who can't handle being a parent should never become one which i guess is kinda an eugenicist ideology...

[monorprise]

@DaisyM23
Except the world isn't even close to being over populated we could probably support twice as many people even with current technology.

Least of all the parts of the world with that technology who despite living in the safest and most prosperous civilization in history. Can't be trouble to pass on the torch of life as it had been passed to them making their luxurious life possible.

Their choice to forgo children is the probably the most epically selfish act possible in the grand scheme of things given how much suffering their ancestors endured just everyone thereafter would have a chance to exist.

Entire families are collapsing today losing all that effort and sacrfise in theses very same parts of the world.

[Ben487]

I don't know. I used to think we were over populated and adding kids to this world was a bad thing, then I learned a bit about economics and started thinking it was imperative that people have children for the sake of the country. But now i just don't care. If you get married you should probably have kids, otherwise wtf is marriage for. If you are unmarried have kids if you wanna have kids don't if you don't. It really doesn't matter

[jshm2]

It's not entirely up to people.

There are people who want kids, but can't. There are people who have kids, but end up killing them or being killed by them.

There is no "obligated" in any of this

[Sour-rose]

Maybe in the 90s, yeah, that was fine. but having kids now is riskier and costs waay more than it did back in the day, I'm sure. If you can't handle when the kid is crying because they are a bit autistic and can't figure out the problem and..."unalive" them... well you done. :)

[Anonymous]

Every ancestor of yours sacrificed everything to pass on the torch of life and make your life even possible. It is extremely arrogant to say your not obligated to pass on the torch of life living in a world of relative luxury compared to theirs.

[Brittanyroseee]

People should ONLY have kids if they 1000000% WANT and DESIRE them. I don’t understand why other people get mad if someone states they don’t want kids. Do they prefer people to birth out unwanted kids that will be neglected?…

[Avicenna]

Of course not- you should want to have kids only because you really want to be a parent.

[Jazzy54]

Nope. Some people are child free and that’s okay. 😊

[LazerBean]

No, many people are unworthy of kids.

[mommymommymommy]

If you're an only child, and male

[Asker]

Normally, it’s the females who are more pressured to have kids.

Why the gender difference in your case?

[mommymommymommy]

Only child, males

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[Asker]

You mean only children AND males, or males who are only children?