(August 19, 2018, 6:40 am)jfingers How could you love pregnancy and not love children?

Not everyone can tolerate or want to tolerate having to take care another human being. Many people here are either still teens, still living at home or can barely take care of themselves, let alone a baby. Not to mention people mostly come here to masturbate and continue on with their day, not to fantasize on becoming a parent.

I apologize for the crazy/deluded remark. That was said in haste and it was wrong. But I stand by the rest. Everybody knows kids are expensive as hell and tons of work. That part is easy to see, but what is not easy to see is that the kids find so many ways, little and big, to reward you for taking on the task. It is difficult to see and even tougher to articulate. They will change your life, but the chances are good that they will make it better if you let them. If you try to be a good parent, it will actually make you a better person. Plus, the world finds lots of ways to make life easier when you have kids. Simple example: you have to spend lots of money of them, but your taxes go down. I could go on forever...

Some of us prefer the rewards a person gains by NOT having children. And I guarantee you, any tax breaks you might get for popping out children will never, ever make up for the costs incurred for having them. Or the time you must spend on them. The list goes on. I prefer my career, my companies, the things I can build with my own two hands. Kids seem like a thing that just happen to most people due to poor planning (not everyone, duh). It's a difference of opinion. I'm not concerned with holding back on this because our society is filled with people who have that "U NO WANT KIDS? WUT WRONG WIT U" attitude. Only recently have enough people gotten together and started to say, collectively, "you know what? No. Just no. Not interested, not doing it -- not for you, not for my genetic lineage, not for the country. I don't want the damn things."

I'm tired and don't feel like proofreading my shit. I know it's a mess.

JFingers!!! My man! I have to agree with him though I don't have any kids of my own. I would've LOVED to have had children... about 3 would be enough! I'm often surrounded by children, youth... they fascinate me with how they think, what they think about and why. Unfortunately we weren't able to have kids of our own... I thought it would simply happen naturally. We considered adoption for a short time but... that never happened either.
For me, incredibly interesting but I'll agree that they're quite expensive. Ideally, my wifey and I would've had 2 kids of our own then, in a perfect world, she would have been a surrogate a few times.
I truly regret never celebrating "Father's Day" as a parent, though I'm considered a father figure by several boys & girls, men & women.
I'm near retirement age now... but pregnant woman remain my passion albeit overwhelming at times.
Just my 5 cents worth.

I'm basically the same as Akhenaten. Never wanted to have kids but do have a fixation with being pregnant. It's very primal. It's entirely possible to indulge in the fantasy of getting pregnant/body changing without actually wanting the end result. I'm introverted and don't have the patience or desire to be a mother. I like my peace and quiet and freedom to pursue whatever I want. People will think you're odd because the societal norm is to have 2.4 kids and spend the rest of your life wrangling them but there are other ways to live happily. We're not all a hive mind.