From: Ralph Lewis (rlewis10us@yahoo.com)
Date: Tue Jun 12 2001 - 09:05:28 MDT
well my brother is 10 years younger that I am and I would never want to go
through that experience of having a kid around again so never wanted to have
kids.
dated a girl in high school and college who had fetish for kids and only
wanted to pump out babies, but at least the norms of the day said you did
not before you were married.
then realized I was gay so the problem was taken care of
I realize this fix will not work for everyone.
This is not being off the wall but have you suggested starting slowly with a
dog to see if your wife wants the responsibility of taking care of another
sentient being for 12 to 18 years?
Good luck, Ralph
At 09:21 PM 06/11/2001 -0800, you wrote:
>Hi extropes,
>
>Long-time lurker here, in need of advice from like minded people.
>
>I don't want children, my wife has decided that she must try to have one.
> I posted the full story asking for help on alt.support.marriage and
alt.support.childfree,
> you can read it here:
>
>http://groups.google.com/groups?hl=en&lr=&safe=off&ic=1&th=320e9f0c0c60256d
>6
>
>My question here is, how do you reconcile having children with pursuing
>goals that can't be accomplished in a normal lifespan to begin with? Besides
>comprehensive and radical self improvement and enlightenment, my specific
>goals for this life include helping to legalize drugs, end intellectual
>property, and extend maximum lifespan (in the relatively short term, meaning
>several decades) and helping humanity transition into posthumanity and making
>that transition myself (long term).
>
>Who has time for kids? I know that several posters I admire very much here
>do have children, and several don't. Excuse me for asking such an inane
>question: Why?
>
>I seem to recall this being discussed previously, but searches on the list
>archives turn up mostly broken links for me. I'd appreciate pointers to
>relevant past threads and/or new input.
>
>Thanks!
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