Who on here doesn't have children?

[Old Hack]

All swings and roundabouts. Was supposed to be getting married in March but somehow knocked the missus up again in July which hit the wedding date. So initially told people we were most likely going to have to change the wedding because of work. Of course we had to tell some people and the wedding venue who on the rebooking had us over a barrel as I paid the deposit on the Friday, the missus telling me when I was in the US on the Monday. She freaked completely out and was going to head to the doctors to get rid, not what you want to hear 5000 miles away on your first day abroad. Having changed everything & set for a new challenge in life the opportunity was taken away recently. As someone so eloquently says on here 'sh1t happens'

I'm a great believer in you have control over your own destiny & so if you want kids later in life then assuming all the plumbing works(you'll only find out later) then it's fine to save up or wait for the right time. If on the other end it's unplanned, deal with it. That's the idea of life you deal with stuff as it happens. It's part of life's tapestry. The worse must be for people who want kids, leave it to late in life & find they cannot or just couldn't. If you don't want them don't have them but rest assured if my kids are playing up on the restaurant table next to you and you look across and tut, i won't give a sh1t.

I get mine to play up if some idiot is making complaints about them. My kids are good kids and it pisses me off no end if someone tuts, just because they are there. It's like those idiots who go to public swimming sessions then complain when kids make a splash near them. Senseless. I have a good French friend who genuine believes kids should be seen and not heard in public, whereas he sees mine and prickles, as I encourage them to be who they are, to not be scared to talk or ask questions, and I have not once, yet, said 'just because' and have encouraged my kids to keep asking a question if someone trips out with 'just because'.

[Spacecadet]

She asked too many questions...

Like what?

[mudskipper]

She sent inappropriate PMs to a male member of the forum.

[formant]

Where did she go and why was she banned?

Wait, what?

[Spacecadet]

She sent inappropriate PMs to a male member of the forum.

FTFY

[Spacecadet]

Wait, what?

It's a finely tuned clique here at CUK, if you don't fit in you'll be hounded till you do something to get yourself banned.
Thicko's like MF though never get the hint

[Old Hack]

Derives from Latin gens (from which, together with forms of the cognate Greek word genos, also derive gene, general, genus and genesis). The original meaning of "clan" or "family" was extended in post-Augustan Latin to acquire the wider meaning of belonging to a distinct nation or ethnicity. Later still the word came to refer to other nations, 'not a Roman citizen'. After the 'Christianisation' of the empire it could also be used of pagan or barbarian cultures.

[fullyautomatix]

Where did she go and why was she banned?

She spoke too much and pretty much every member found it difficult to figure out what she was talking about.

Fear not though, her sockie will soon be here ( or already here). When she makes her appearance it wont be difficult to recognise her.

[formant]

It's a finely tuned clique here at CUK, if you don't fit in you'll be hounded till you do something to get yourself banned.
Thicko's like MF though never get the hint

K...

[Halo Jones]

I don’t think I ever really wanted kids, coming from a large family I helped raise the younger ones to the point that when I left home I just wanted to have fun.

I did just that to my 30’s then got all sensible & went to uni, got a profession and a career rather than a just a job, after 7 years I have just finished my academic studying.

In the last 3 years BGG got diagnosed with MS, this year I got diagnosed with MDS.

So kids never really happened, I don’t miss it, it’s just that life went a different way.

But the thing that annoys me the most is the automatic assumption (normally by total strangers) is that as a female there must be something wrong with me for not wanting kids & I have missed out on life’s greatest gift.