Would you have had kids if you couldn't
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| Wed, 09-03-2003 - 3:31pm |
I guess I'm still astounded at the attitude that surfaced at another thread implying that if they couldn't pay for college, they wouldn't have had children. Of course, I'm a lazy, selfish mom at home who isn't working while some of my kids are in school so maybe my opinion doesn't count. Maybe I SHOULD take up scrapbooking to make my existence more worthwhile! lol
In any case, it is an interesting question considering that, under that reasoning, Oprah Winfrey shouldn't have been born. Give me time and I can come up with a whole list of highly successful and respected people who have impacted us in positive ways that wouldn't have been born had their parents decided that because they couldn't pay for college, they wouldn't have children.
How has the college issue influenced your decision to have children, if at all? Do you think it is an important criteria in the decision?
Cindy

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If her grandmother (my mom) had her way, dd1 would have been adopted by someone else or aborted. . .dd1 is glad she's ours.
I never felt 'cheated' by being the product of what was a teen marriage. I feel cheated to be the child of someone with untreated depression. . .but not the product of a teen marriage.
Don't know how else to answer that one.
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A hard bed? What do you mean? You do realize this is not universally true for all of us who married young?
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