Do you think you should have a kid without being attached to someone else? Is this where our future is headed as a society?

[Anonymous]

With abortion rights dwindling, with divorce rates skyrocketing, with lack of enough female/male population in some countries growing, with the economy being a mess, do you think more and more men and women will start figuring out ways to or adopting in order to become parents? Is this the route society will begin to take instead of the traditional nuclear family?

[Screenwriter]

The marital success/divorce rate remains steady. There has been no skyrocketing of divorce.

What has happened is that people are avoiding such long-term commitments because of finances or other life restrictions. Without a partner, the responsibilities for a single parent are fairly heavy. If something happens to you, where does your child go? What if there are no living grandparents, aunts or uncles?

Can you , or have you saved enough money to support that child in some decent fashion on your income? Saved for college or other post-secondary training so your child will be able to support themselves well?

The people who seem to choose single parenthood freely are people with generous incomes and steady jobs. Others who accidentally fall into it have to struggle.

But where there's a will, there's a way. The best outcome for a person is to have a stable relationship, and that stable relationship supports the best outcome for your child, too. It's also a financial bulwark. Two incomes are better than one. And two working parents mean a child is covered by good health insurance too.

Many, many benefits from having two parents. Also means parents get to trade off on child care. It's nice to get a break.

[SleepingHazard]

I don't know if you should or shouldn't, but it's not my responsibility either.
People need to take care of their kids, sometimes not even having both parents will make that happen.

[RingOfFire]

I doubt it. If the human race goes down that road it will become extinct. A nuclear family is the building block of a strong society and a strong propensity for survival of the race. That's exactly why enemy forces are attempting to destroy the nuclear family in Western society by perverting it with gender and gender role confusion. It weakens countries and allows the more evil countries on the planet to dominate them and eventually take control of them.

A child should have a mother and a father present in their lives. That's the healthiest thing for a child. Look at the demographics in American society that have the highest out of wedlock birth rates and you will easily see that this is true. They have higher crime rates, higher poverty rates, lower education rates, higher illness rates and shorter lifespans. This isn't coincidence, in large part it is the result of children being raised without a father in their lives.

Millions of years of evolution wasn't for nothing. Men and women were shaped and designed to have critical complimentary roles in a nuclear family to ensure the survival of the species.

[TheSpaceGnome]

I don't want any kids, just a wife and pets.

The issue is not cultural changes, its some very vocal people being too impatient to find the right person for them, and then decreeing that marriages are impossible just because they settled and married a person who is nothing like them mentally, or a person they don't find attractive, or a person who's both.

Of course in those situations divorce will happen.

But if you pick someone with the same hobbies and interests and personality, and they get you off, marriages tend to last.

[Djaay]

The problem here is the men aren't leaving anyone , the women have turned bad and are the ones leaving. So I'm trying to understand why a woman would ask this question when it's the women creating these articulated wrong choices to began with. No offense but another thing here is why 30-35 age group are always the ones behind these question like this one?

[kaucky1]

Looks can be deceiving but sometimes the 'father' kills self becomes baby inside of you angered having surface squeezing your guts from inside want you to knock it out or c section get too wasted to realize anything lied to there's ways to change looks genders altered

[Nikki1989]

“With abortion rights dwindling, with divorce rates skyrocketing.”

What planet are you living on?

[Flower7]

Adoption is a very good thing and should be happening more often.

[Anonymous]

If you want something in this life go out and get it. Waiting is wasting. You can wait your life away waiting for the perfect man to have a child with.

[Anonymous]

No. I think the birth rate will decline. I think less people are interested in having kids.

[Anonymous]

Adopting, absolutely. But choosing to bring a child into the world today without both parents is one of the most selfish things a woman can do.

[Godihateyou]

We can grow babies in a lab. Caring about woman is obsolete

[DrPepper12]

Should? No with exceptions.

[BigTex53]

Seems like this might be where we’re headed