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Having children makes you see the world in a completely different way. When you're responsible for those little lives, you can't slough it off or forget about it until later.

In 2014, having children is complicated and daunting and fraught - as much as it's always been, but now we're talking about it. And the more we talk about it, the more of us will realize that we're not going through it alone. Far from it.

When you have kids you do grow up. I have just started realising it now-it changes the world, having children.

Once you have kids, you think like a parent. You get a lot more protective.

I don't necessarily want kids. A lot of our friends are having children and I don't know if it's for me. I haven't come down hardcore on either side of the argument. I think when people come from a stable family having children becomes a celebration and I'm not sure it would be that way for me.

I always felt too young and selfish to have children of my own.

I think having kids just makes you want to do things to help people. You have children, and you see how fragile and innocent and helpless they are when they first start out. If they are going to be a victim of whatever they are surrounded by, I just do everything I can to try to make whatever change I can.

I haven't really made up my mind concretely about having kids.

Having children is life-changing, to state the obvious. It's a gigantic shift in your life and I welcomed it.

Having children truly ends adolescence. We are all either parents or children: responsibility-takers or those who demand from others.