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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My husband is "academically inclined, very bright," and his parents assumed he was headed for college.
He went against their expectations and enlisted.
And NO, he didn't come from a 'low SES' family.
We both came from quite middle class immediate families. . .with his parents having done a better job of investing than mine did.
It was definitly NOT peer pressure.
Susan
I, too, was the only one in my group of friends who enlisted. My best friend went on to college, got a degree in Archeology/Anthropology with a minor in English worked for a while at a Lane Bryant in Phoenix and then moved into a commune community in some mountain area, where the cabins have no electricity and the community shares a water pump. Ostensibly she's writing the 'great American novel', but that was more than 10 years ago and she's long since stopped answering letters, so who knows.
The officers. . .they have the 'real' careers.
Oh, if they only knew.
Wow, all his friends promptly flunked out of college? What are the odds of THAT?
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