Poll: How do you feel about children?

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Andothul

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Its all fine and good to say you don't want children when you're young

but statistically speaking between 80-90% of us will have at least 1 by the time we reach 40.

Its just biology to reproduce.
 

WanderingFool

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I dont have children, but the "I hate them all... except my own...." option is my most likely outcome for when I do...
 

DanielBrown

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Babies are cute, but anything above the age of three makes me blood boil. In general I really dislike children.
 

Miumaru

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Babies are NOT CUTE. Like them or not, they are gross and ugly. And when people often say "You were a baby"...so? I was an ugly baby. I dont pretend I was some special pretty baby.
Children piss me off, but they never have been my own. I dont know if I want kids, may depend on my eventual partner. If they want kids though, I might, but I would adopt...American.
 

Owyn_Merrilin

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What is it with this site and child haters? Not "why do you hate kids," but "why are there so many of you around here?" This is another one of those threads where I'm severely disappointed by the results, but unsurprised because I know just how misanthropic The Escapist can be.

OT: I voted "I have or want to have several," because I do want to reproduce at some point. I'll probably stop at closer to two kids than five, but you never know. I will, however, be working with kids almost every day of my adult life, because I am almost done with an education degree, and I intend to start teaching high school shortly. I honestly can't wait; when I started down this path, I wanted to eventually go on through a PhD in history and teach at a community college somewhere, but the more time goes on, the more I want to work with kids, and start teaching as soon as I finish my bachelor's degree.
 

bulbasaur765

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Unless we can find some way to "recycle" some of them, I don't really care much for their behavior.

Kudos to those who get the reference
 

CarpathianMuffin

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Children, especially loud screaming ones, make my anxiety worse. Eating breakfast at IHOP today, I thought I was going to have to leave halfway through my stuffed French toast because there was a lovable little fleshbag practically screaming in my ear. It didn't help that there were kids screaming and running past while that was going on, so I just felt even worse.

So yeah, I hate kids. While I would never wish ill on them, I'd prefer to keep my distance for as long as possible.
 

valkeminator

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At the moment, I really really hate children, especially babies. They are noisy, demanding, can be disrespectful if mishandled, etc. We'll see what happens in the future though, but for now accidentally making a girl pregnant is the worst thing that can happen in my life.
 

runnernda

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I like kids well enough. I babysat like a fiend when I was younger, so I know how to deal with just about anything when it comes to kids, and I wouldn't mind having a few someday.

That said, it's not going to happen for a while. And I don't care if it screws the kid up, I'm taking the damn drugs in the hospital.
 

Hazzaslagga

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I dislike a very large percentage of children and have already apologized to my parents for being a child whilst younger. When asked, what i would do if i could visit my past self, I said i would punch them in the face. Some can be alright though.
 

LordZutaki

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HapexIndustries said:
I dislike babies but I like kids, in general. Good ones.

Children are little people, and they tend to be a lot smarter than we give them credit for, so I usually treat them like people. In general this means children like me. Plus I like toys and cartoons and video games, so we actually have stuff in common. I had to hang with my aunts 9 and 6 year old boys and we played Wii and watched Adventuretime. Not so bad.

I remember being a child very well, and I recognize that I have the opportunity, in every interaction, to influence children in a way that can help their development into decent adults. I try to take that responsibility semi-seriously.

That said I tend to hate children in public because they are poorly behaved, resultant of their upbringing. Still, I dislike parents much more than I dislike children. I also like blowing a six year old's mind by asking what they're playing on their DS and being like "Oh, Scribblenauts? Type in CTHULHU."

EDIT: I think the intro sequence to "Idiocracy" explains why it's important for smart people to have children, though. It's worth the financial hit, assuming you can raise them properly, to save the world from morons.
i agree 100% especially with the entitled assholes we keep getting these days
 

Carlston

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Heh my daughter started eating sushi at 3, watches anime, her first knock knock joke was from animaniacs and her favorite game is Super Mario Bros. 2 on my WII and at 5 she made a cosplay for a anime con...As well she learned there we no monsters in the dark using the NVG from my MW2 collectors edition, I can see daddy and my kitties but no mosters. And she loves disney princess but Tigers make everything safe and better cause monsters are afraid of tigers... She loves Slayers, Batman the animated series and one piece. But only Funimation, when shown the 4kids dub she said "Daddy this is stupid I wanna see the real One piece." after one showing...

She's the little bad ass I want defining the new era.

That kid is a bad ass and i'll never think twice about her...ever.

It's a whole new game when yer kid is that awesome.

She gets a win in my book.
 

Engarde

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I am going to jump on the boat with the thousand others.

Children are amazing! They taste so good!

The little buggers tend to be rather loud and annoying and things. Especially in public. I don't mind them when they are behaved, but even then...