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Why do people want to have kids?

I don't understand why people, especially girls and women, want kids. First, you have to go through 9 months of discomfort with a baby inside your stomache, and to me, that is 9 months of your life wasted that you can never get back! Then, you have to go through the painful delivery of the baby, I don't understand why people want to go through that kind of pain! Then after you have the baby, you have to take care of it until it's 18, you don't really have time to do things you want to do, you don't really have any quiet time or much fun time, so you waste a lot of your life by having kids! I know I'm only 16, but I know that want to LIVE my life, not waste it!

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  • 6 years ago

    When you get older and get married you will probably change your mind like everyone else but being a mum & grandma who obviosuly went through all what you say I do not recommend bringing kids into this world as all they bring you is stress so just keep believing that life is better without kids, Good Luck

  • 6 years ago

    I had a child young and I wasn't ready so I didn't enjoy it now I'm older and I have another child who wasn't planned either but I love being a mum to both of them ,being a mum is not a terrible thing it's enjoyable you actually enjoy all them things that u think will stress you out , but as longs as it's when your ready, people who don't have kids think it's all pain but there's as much joy as there is pain believe me it's rewarding.

  • Anonymous
    6 years ago

    Hormones

  • 6 years ago

    I don't want kids either but I long for them? I don't know how to explain it. I have extremely strong motherly instincts but I don't want the responsibility of having children. I want to travel and do as I please.

    I think everyone is different so don't judge.

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  • Joe
    Lv 6
    6 years ago

    Biologically having babies is the whole point of life. The human mind has really powerful mechanisms for making you want to have babies.

  • Sam
    Lv 7
    6 years ago

    Hormones do strange things.

    In five years, remember you asked this when you're on your back screaming, and someone is yelling back with, "PUSH"

  • Anonymous
    6 years ago

    98% of people have no good answer for that

  • Anonymous
    6 years ago

    You are not a representative for all women so stfu.

  • Anonymous
    6 years ago

    yes

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  • ?
    Lv 7
    6 years ago

    why don't you ask your mom

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