do you want kids one day?

why or why not?

i don't want kids because i'm scared that i'd make them all have eating disorders by never letting them have junkfood. i'm afraid of going insane and then weighing them constantly and making them do cardio all the time :|

If I still can have children (hopefully I will), I would love to have children.

I don't know why though.

I just hope I don't influence them to have eating disorders too because of my sometimes strange habits.

i would love to have kids, there cute! i dont really have a reason, just that...there cute! @_@

So much responsibility. I don't think I'd be able to handle guiding someone through the most important years of their lives, and I'm a pushover, so when they hit the teenage years and decided that they hated me... ouch. And that would involve creating some kind of stability for them, which I can't even do for myself.

I wouldn't be able to forgive myself if I made any kind of mistake raising them, which would either turn me into a control freak or too lax. I'd have too much of the focus on food, just like my mother did... and honestly, I'm too darn selfish to imagine myself with a child right now. Until I can even imagine myself in 20 years I'm not going to entertain the thought.

I do... for like, two years.. as awful as that might sound. Haha. The only positive I see is being able to dress it up in little baby shoes and clothes - like a teddy bear!

Otherwise, they are money-suckers. It costs an average of $300 000 to raise one child. They are loud, fussy, dirty, etc, etc. I am also a high-achiever, and I would probably push the kid so hard they wouldn't have a life. I would never have time for them either - I am very, very career oriented. Once I finish like, eight years of university I plan on being rich, damnit! =P

Yesss definitely. Minimum of three, cos it sucks being an only child.

Not letting them have junk food is raising them to be healthy erica!

I don't ever want kids. Because I can barely take care of myself, I don't want to ruin another person's life. Plus, if I did have children, I would probably be over-protective and then eventually influencing them to become rebels.

I use to alway answer that question with a fast "hell no!".They cry too much,are annoying,expensive and basically you have no life once they come.But as I have gotten older I do see myself having kids in the future. I had a crappy childhood, having a mom who criticized me on my weight,looks and  everything else she could talk crap about. I always was afraid I would end up being like my mom and no kid deserves to grow up in that kind of environment. I now want kids, because I know I will be a great mom ,nothing like my mom and I want to have a close relationship with my kids (a relationship I never had with my mom) and have them know they could come to me and talk to me about anything. I think it will be fun and exciting.A new chapter in my life but that will not be untill another 10 years.lol. I do not want kids any time soon.

nooooooooo. I can't see myself willing to take on a job like that. So many things can go wrong & I dunno. I like kids in small doses, but I don't think I want to have any.
I may adopt... I dunno.

I use to not want to get married or have children..low and behold I'm engaged and considering it now. I, however, want to wait awhile for both to happen. I just want my life to be together first. I don't know if it ever will be fully, but I'll know when the time is right and when it is I'm all in welcoming arms.

Right now though, I think I would be too much of an emotional mess to have children so is my partner. lmao. So one day. :)

I didn't use to but the idea has grown on me over time. Primarily because of my fiance. He wants them eventually, and I would love to see him as a father. I am so encouraged by the potential I think our kids might have to change the world. I know that sounds silly, but I really think it's amazing.

Although, sometimes I wonder why you'd want to bring any child into this screwed up world. I would let them have junk food within reason, though. But I'm pretty anti TV and I'd want to have a yard and run around with them outside and do finger painting and all kinds of fun stuff. =)

(Though I hate other people's kids. Sometimes I think I'll be too distant as a mother, my biggest concern, because I often have issues feeling warmth towards other people, especially children when I see them as being raised poorly.)

I do however not believe in biologically having more than two children in this over populated world. So if I have two and want more, I'm definitely going to adopt. =)

i also don't think i could handle waking up every morning having a huge stomach 24/7. that's probably because of my ed, but still..

I would love to have one or two children, and I always have.  Yes, losing pregnancy weight will suck, but I feel like it's a great part of life that I wouldn't want to miss out on.  Sure, it won't all be wonderful and it will certainly be costly, but it will be a wonderful way to spend a good twenty years of my life.  Parenting is hard, I'm sure, and yet I know that I would like the challenge.

I thought I wanted a baby, but then my older sister and her husband had one. If being an aunt is this much of a trial, then I can only vaguely imagine how it would be if I had to nurture and be with my own baby 24/7.   o.o

Still, I think that someday I will have some of my own. Having a niece has made me realize how much I value my ability to be free of such a weighty responsibility. No kid for me until I am ready to seriously settle down, and to make permanent life choices.

I think that raising a healthy child would be pretty easy, actually. Feed her healthy, yet tasty foods. Don't worry if she makes mistakes. Accept her idiosyncrasies, allay her fears... all the stuff that my parents have done for me. Although I won't homeschool my kids like mine have me. So much work!

(being pregnant looks like so much fun, personally. My sister loved having a little person in her, even if she did do a lion's share of complaining about her stomach.)

If I choose to marry, then yes. I have two paths I can go on in my life:

Live for the world and do everything in my power to make it better. With or without a partner in crime. More so leaning towards no partner in crime (ie no lover). Less distraction that way.

Live for a family, take care of them and love them greatly and raise my children to take on the world like I wanted to. If I live past the age in which my child moves out, I'll continue with my plot to make the world better.

My true love will always be humanity as a whole and it's potential to do good, so in the end, I will take the world on, but I'm pretty indifferent about starting a family and a marriage life. It could get in the way with my true love, or it could make my love stronger. -shrug- I'll figure it out when the time comes.

i don't know if i will. pregnant people freak me out and i don't think babies are cute. kids are loud and obnoxious and you have to change diapers, etc... but sometimes i think it would be fun.

If I ever have kids, I want to adopt.

But, I don't want to actually have my OWN kids, my family has their own mess of mental and physical problems, I think it would be irresponsible of me to bring them into that world. I'd rather adopt someone else's child and take care of them. There are too many children in the world without loving families to bother thinking about bringing more into this world.

But that's just me.