I never understand why people have children and then insist on living as though nothing has shifted.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
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.
You always hear people say that having kids changes everything, but you can't fully realize it until you have children yourself.
There are a lot of people who want to leave their children with a world that is in better shape.
It's hard enough to be in a marriage and then have a kid, then kids: it changes everything.
All of these things we do without children, and suddenly we don't do them anymore, and it comes home to us in a real way, that it's very different to have the responsibility of a child.
When you have kids you do grow up. I have just started realising it now-it changes the world, having children.
Once you have a child, you change so much along the way, you don't even recognize yourself by the time they're ready to move out!
The problem is, we live in a society where all that interests us is power and money. So we don't have any interest in our children, and what we leave for our children is not important.
If I have no children what would be the point of living.
Having children is life-changing, to state the obvious. It's a gigantic shift in your life and I welcomed it.