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My "why I don't think I'll have children" list is just growing longer every day
I'm yet to hear any reason FOR having children
I'd imagine they can help with finding a reason to put up with working for a living. Also to fill out what we'd call life with ups and downs, book weeks and swimming lessons rather than the numb emptiness of a quiet house. Someone to channel love into and through. Someone who you can at least try to teach to be a net-positive to the world. Someone to mow the lawns. Someone to tell your old crap jokes to who is a clean slate and hasn't heard them before. Someone to invite over for Christmas once they've moved out and started their own lives.
This isn't a list of things everybody wouldn't have if they didn't have children by the way. But I imagine it'd apply to a lot of people.
"the numb emptiness of a quiet house".
Dude, put some music on.