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Post by cleglaw on Mar 9, 2009 23:57:06 GMT
If you do have children, do both parents work? I have 1 son, aged 25. I work. My wife stayed at home until our son was 9 years old. When she started working, she left the house after he did, and they came home together. This poll was inspired by this thread in Humanology. The posts there made me wonder about the demographics of the forum. |
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Post by Galadriel on Mar 10, 2009 0:31:29 GMT
Yes I'm a parent
*removed the rest of my ranting* 
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Post by Flix on Mar 10, 2009 0:43:45 GMT
No kids, no desire for kids. I would probably want one parent at home with the kid (ideally both, but usually someone's got to work).
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Post by killerzzz on Mar 10, 2009 1:35:59 GMT
Not a parent, but when I find the right lady some day, who knows?  Killerzzz |
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Post by The Sonar Chicken on Mar 10, 2009 6:24:38 GMT
No desire to have kids, ever. Many claim that I'd make a good parent yet I got enough problems to make a bad one. Besides, if I ever wanted a kid, I'd adopt one and not birth one. The damn world has got too many people already.
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Post by Hildor on Mar 10, 2009 6:48:36 GMT
No kids, 18 years is a bit too young for that. I have no idea if I ever will have any.
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Post by rockergrl on Mar 10, 2009 21:30:41 GMT
I'm not a parent...and I just don't want to ever have kids.
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Post by Elliot Kane on Mar 10, 2009 21:33:07 GMT
No. My attitude has always been that in the unlikely event I ever do, it will be with Miss Right & no other (Although she'd be Mrs Kane at that point, as it were).
I consider the possibility unlikely in the extreme.
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Post by LaFille on Mar 11, 2009 2:54:36 GMT
Not yet, if pets don't count.  |
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Post by Hand-E-Food on Mar 12, 2009 0:17:49 GMT
None yet, but we've just started trying. |
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Post by rhiian on Mar 12, 2009 19:09:15 GMT
i'd be rather worried if i was a parent...
definitly in the future though.
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Post by badheroine on Mar 12, 2009 19:32:00 GMT
Yes I am a parent and I do stay home.... I work one day a week but before I went back to work, I stayed at home and my partner went to work 5 days a week..... I would rather have one parent at home..... but sometimes it's not possible. Although I have some really great people around so if both parents have to work I know my daughter will be ok!!!!!
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Post by Hildor on Mar 13, 2009 6:50:13 GMT
No kids, 18 years is a bit too young for that. I have no idea if I ever will have any. Both my parents are working. My dad full-time and my mum half-time, for the children. I don't think that it had any noticable negative effect on me and my sister that our mum was working three days a week. |
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Post by Terrordar on Mar 13, 2009 8:54:50 GMT
Personally? I'm 22, no kids, no girlfriends or anything like that as of yet.
But yea, I'd love to have kids one day, hopefully before I'm 35.
And being a "good" parent is subjective anyway, as is being a bad one. Its not about being good or bad, its about BEING a Parent. The small things don't matter at the end of the day, what matters is that you provide for them and love them.
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Post by Glance A'Lot on Mar 13, 2009 14:42:25 GMT
Am parent of two - and while I still studied, we shared working/studying and household alternating. Later, with second child, I worked, she stayed at home.
My daughter is parent of two - she works part time, husband fulltime.
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Post by ss on Mar 21, 2009 17:23:04 GMT
To add to your demographics Cleg...
Parent, 6 kids, 8 grandkids, 2 great-grandkids..
Both parents worked at times, I always worked, wife worked
as she saw fit to do so.
Kids are grown, youngest is 28...
I went back to work cause retirement is so boring...wife still does not work...nor do I want her to..
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Post by janggut on Mar 22, 2009 10:41:10 GMT
single, not a parent (yet?).
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Post by kitty on Mar 23, 2009 4:52:47 GMT
No desire to ever even consider children. Therefore - zero kids. Both my parents worked when I was a kid, mother only stayed home for recovering from giving birth (so about 3-4 months or so), I turned out ok - was messed up by other things  (was in childcare in something before kindergarten from the age of 6 months as far as I was told, hen in kindergarten, brother or very rarely sister came and picked me up and walked me home, I ate breakfast, lunch and vesper in childcare and tea/dinner with family) But I have a tremendous crush on pets, that's probably were my mother instinct wandered to. Oh but I'm an aunt of two. Can't stand it though. |
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Post by Nero the Glorious on Apr 1, 2009 16:27:45 GMT
eh...its only a matter of time for me...I don't think I can keep the wife at bay much longer on this issue...by the way guys a dog only gets you like 18 months.
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