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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Hardly any. Most upper class children go to college, they do NOT get out of high school and marry the first guy or girl who comes along. Please, that isn't even nearly a little bit true.
Really? I'm wondering just what kind of job a (maybe) high school graduate (you worked F/T since you were 16, did you graduate from high school?), can get that would allow them to support a family?
And even if you could get one, don't you want your children to do more than "survive"?
What do you mean she wouldn't have had what she does now? Are you saying that if she hadn't married her husband, she would NEVER have met anyone else? Were her options that limited? That doesn't say much for mrsmommy or anyone else chomping at the bit to marry the first guy that asks.
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Abortion (which results in the loss of life and a lifetime of sad memories and regret on the part of the mother ... especially if the child is WANTED just not planned) over a shotgun wedding (which can result in a lifetime of happiness for all involved)? You'e got to be kidding.
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However, in the case here, the mother WASN'T a teen.
I think I'll drop this portion for now .. before I let loose and violate TOS.
Hollie
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