Who else here doesn't have children?

[wurzel]

I don't & I have to confess I find the subject a bit awkward as people raise the subject of my not having kids so readily - even people I don't know that well. I've even met a few who think not having kids is a selfish thing - probably a grain of truth there but I don't really need to be told it...

[MaryPoppins]

I agree with your first point.. must admit I haven't met many people in your second point but there is another set I cannot stand. Those that need to analyse why I don't have kids.. in great detail. They can't understand why I haven't so try and make up excuses for me while asking loads of questions. Very uncomfortable and annoying. I just haven't would enough of an answer for most, but not this set..'Do you not want them 'do you regret it' blah blah..

Very rude, isn't it.

I find it very strange what people think they can say, particularly smug parents.

Bloke at work asked whether I'd be out getting drunk tonight, for my birthday. I said no, as obvs have my son at home. This bloke already knows from previous awkward conversations that I'm a single parent, but asked me again today if 'dad' is around to 'at least give you a night off'. I said no, with a smile that I hoped would close that conversation off. Alas no; he asked why not. I don't know why people think they can be so fcking nosy.

[rant over]

[Cliphead]

You did indeed.

There was lots of

http://forums.contractoruk.com/gener...-children.html

Oops, alzheimer's is a bitch.

[jmo21]

I agree with your first point.. must admit I haven't met many people in your second point but there is another set I cannot stand. Those that need to analyse why I don't have kids.. in great detail. They can't understand why I haven't so try and make up excuses for me while asking loads of questions. Very uncomfortable and annoying. I just haven't would enough of an answer for most, but not this set..'Do you not want them 'do you regret it' blah blah..

I have another, people that ask 'when are you two getting married?'

Fook off!!

[northernladuk]

I have another, people that ask 'when are you two getting married?'

Fook off!!

Very good point!! We have that as well.

[KentPhilip]

I dislike people with kids wanging on to non kid people about how great it is to have kids.

Kids usually come along when people are not doing enough wanging..

[MarillionFan]

Very rude, isn't it.

I find it very strange what people think they can say, particularly smug parents.

Bloke at work asked whether I'd be out getting drunk tonight, for my birthday. I said no, as obvs have my son at home. This bloke already knows from previous awkward conversations that I'm a single parent, but asked me again today if 'dad' is around to 'at least give you a night off'. I said no, with a smile that I hoped would close that conversation off. Alas no; he asked why not. I don't know why people think they can be so fcking nosy.

[rant over]

He was actually enquiring if you had been 'getting a lot' and were you presently 'getting any' and did you fancy 'getting a litte'.

You've been out of the game for a while, you need to recognise the signs.

[EternalOptimist]

There is a special joy in having kids, no doubt about it.

But the fact that CH asks this again means that he is feeling a sad gap where his 'would be kids' should be.
So in the spirit of friendship, Anglo-Scots relations and fair play, I am willing, if he fills the adoption paperwork in, to let him have a few of my little bastids

[KentPhilip]

I am willing, if he fills the adoption paperwork in, to let him have a few of my little bastids

Do they come with the £3.4K bank accounts you've just credited them with?

[Old Hack]

I have kids and I had them late as I didn't want to have kids initially. We actually thought my wife wasn't able to have kids, but them Me and he Mrs went off to work in Aus on a contract, and she fell pregnant, pretty much, as soon as we got there. Doctors reckon it was a release of stress that did it. Now the only part that saddens me, is that I will be 63 when my youngest starts (hopefully) uni. It's one of those strange inner questions: like Spacecadet, I sometimes wish I had kids sooner, but then I start thinking about the life I had before them, which was really good, and led me to the stage where I had kids, one of them sliding door questions you find yourself asking: what would have happened if I had kids aged 25?

All I know, is that through kids, you find you have in you, a kind of love that you couldn't properly explain. Sounds daft, but that's about it for me.