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Shorty
05-30-2014, 04:01 AM
How many kids would you like to have someday?

Pumpkin
05-30-2014, 04:04 AM
I have one. Maybe, and this is a big maybe, another one someday. Probably just one, though

Skyblade
05-30-2014, 04:07 AM
Either one or two.

Scotty_ffgamer
05-30-2014, 04:08 AM
I've always thought 2 kids would be a good number, but I don't really know. I'm sure that thought would change once I'm actually in a relationship and trying for that. I do want to have at least one kid someday.

Colonel Angus
05-30-2014, 04:17 AM
I'd like to have two, maybe one of each. If I had two boys, I'd name them Mario & Luigi. If I had two girls, I'd name them Penelo & Vaanessa (copyright 2014 Colonel Angus). :D

Before that, I'd have to get a date first. :(

black orb
05-30-2014, 04:24 AM
>>> Zero for me..:luca:

noxious.sunshine
05-30-2014, 04:35 AM
I'm kind of done having kids. Parker is all I need...

There's a gigantic age gap between my siblings and me and I don't want that for my girl- so I figure the window's already closed. Plus, she's already said she doesn't want brothers or sisters & doesn't want me to get married, and I mad respect that.

My boyfriend wants kids down the road, but I'm very against being like 35+ and having a child. I find it very selfish of the parent(s) for a lot of reasons. And just the whole being pregnant again thing doesn't really appeal to me.

Maybe I'll change my mind someday.. After I get my girl back, but I just don't really see it happening anytime soon.

Miss Mae
05-30-2014, 04:41 AM
Right now I'm thinking none, but I'm way too young to really know, so I voted no idea. All I know is that I really don't want kids yet. If that ever changes, I will deal with it then.

Quindiana Jones
05-30-2014, 05:32 AM
I dunno. I just had breakfast so I'm not especially hungry right now. Maybe one or two?

LocoColt04
05-30-2014, 06:31 AM
Hold on, what about the American dream of a little house with a white picket fence, a dog, and 2.5 kids?

Can I have 2.5 kids?

Shorty
05-30-2014, 06:32 AM
Tell us what qualifies as .5 of a kid and I will answer you.

Quindiana Jones
05-30-2014, 06:33 AM
Arms and legs.

Shorty
05-30-2014, 06:34 AM
No torso?

Miss Mae
05-30-2014, 06:50 AM
No, just the arms and legs. And if you're lucky, a freezer to keep them in.

Edit: This was my 1,000th post. No regrets.

56238

LocoColt04
05-30-2014, 06:53 AM
teeheehee~

Brutal.

Madame Adequate
05-30-2014, 06:53 AM
Nah what you want is vertical bisecting, that'll be much more likely to guarantee exactly .5 of a kid.

LocoColt04
05-30-2014, 06:54 AM
But the heart is slightly to the left. If I get the right side of the kid, it's dead, and if I get the left side, the organs are not distributed evenly!

Miss Mae
05-30-2014, 07:02 AM
Loco makes very valid points here.

Kalevala
05-30-2014, 07:14 AM
"A basement full of children." :erm:

Shorty
05-30-2014, 07:15 AM
Yes? What is the problem, sir?

Kalevala
05-30-2014, 07:21 AM
56240

Shorty
05-30-2014, 07:22 AM
stop it, you're killing me xD

TOO MUCH REP GIVEN OUT GODDAMNIT

Kalevala
05-30-2014, 07:27 AM
EoFF Immortal status, here I come.

Sephiroth
05-30-2014, 01:03 PM
A basement full of children does not sound right.

3.

metagloria
05-30-2014, 01:50 PM
Have one (see thread in FF3 forum), and my wife and I are planning to adopt soon, so that'll make 2. Whether a third comes after that (biological or adopted), we'll play by ear. But most likely just 2, so that's what I voted.

blackmage_nuke
05-30-2014, 02:10 PM
I'd like to have one of each binary gender but I'll stop if I get three the same or if I have one or two but then dont have enough money to support more. I'll probably have zero though.

What I really want though is a "basement full" of nieces and nephews so it's all fun and no work with uncle Nuke.

Loony BoB
05-30-2014, 02:44 PM
Baby number one, halfway done!
Baby number two, that'll do!
Baby number three, vasectomy!

I wrote that little rhyme myself a long time ago and it's stuck with me. Also, it's quite serious about how I feel about having kids!

chionos
05-30-2014, 06:35 PM
Well I have three already (It's too laaate), so why stop there?

Shaibana
05-30-2014, 09:52 PM
None,
im not a childrens person.
and i do not want the responsibility mentaly and financialy

Pike
05-30-2014, 09:55 PM
Ideally I'd like 2 or 3, but more and more these days I'm thinking I'm never gonna have any :-/

Madame Adequate
05-30-2014, 10:04 PM
Welp, guess I better get to work. *unzips*

Shauna
05-30-2014, 10:05 PM
lol

I think I'd like 1-2. But who knows what the future holds.

Parker
05-30-2014, 10:10 PM
2-4 but i wont be able to afford any kids so i will probably never have any

Formalhaut
05-30-2014, 10:15 PM
I would love to have two kids, I'd say that's probably the ideal for me. One a boy, one a girl, seems about right.

As to when I'd want kids, hard to say. If I'm 19 now, and assuming that me and Sam are still going strong, having the first child between the ages of 27-30 sounds about right. The key thing is money, and I'd like to be at least engaged before having the first one.

Overall though, I'll have them when me and Sam are ready.

Kalevala
05-30-2014, 10:16 PM
2-4 but i wont be able to afford any kids so i will probably never have any

They do cost a lot.

Spooniest
05-30-2014, 10:49 PM
I find children loud and irritating, and they produce an unpleasant odor.

Zero children will be just fine with me.

noxious.sunshine
05-30-2014, 11:14 PM
The Duggars have a basement full of children.

Just saying.

Colonel Angus
05-31-2014, 12:10 AM
lol

I think I'd like 1-2. But who knows what the future holds.
If you & Mr. Shauna ever have a son, please name him Tidus.

Shauna
05-31-2014, 12:21 AM
Lord no. xD

Mirage
05-31-2014, 12:21 AM
I doubt I'll have children, but if I do, I think one will do. I want a little girl that i can spoil the shit out of. In a responsible way, of course.

escobert
05-31-2014, 12:26 AM
2 or 3 would be cool.

Shiny
05-31-2014, 02:20 AM
Two, and at least three years apart please no twins kthanx. I'm kind of against having just one child, because only children tend to be little assholes, but if I just have one that's fine too. If he/she is really adorable and smart that willl make up for him/her being a little asshole.

Miss Mae
05-31-2014, 03:40 AM
Two, and at least three years apart please no twins kthanx. I'm kind of against having just one child, because only children tend to be little assholes, but if I just have one that's fine too. If he/she is really adorable and smart that willl make up for him/her being a little asshole.
:shifty:

Formalhaut
05-31-2014, 03:44 AM
Two, and at least three years apart please no twins kthanx. I'm kind of against having just one child, because only children tend to be little assholes, but if I just have one that's fine too. If he/she is really adorable and smart that willl make up for him/her being a little asshole.
:shifty:

Guessing you're an only child?

Miss Mae
05-31-2014, 03:47 AM
Two, and at least three years apart please no twins kthanx. I'm kind of against having just one child, because only children tend to be little assholes, but if I just have one that's fine too. If he/she is really adorable and smart that willl make up for him/her being a little asshole.
:shifty:

Guessing you're an only child?
Maybe. :shifty:

Formalhaut
05-31-2014, 03:50 AM
Two, and at least three years apart please no twins kthanx. I'm kind of against having just one child, because only children tend to be little assholes, but if I just have one that's fine too. If he/she is really adorable and smart that willl make up for him/her being a little asshole.
:shifty:

Guessing you're an only child?
Maybe. :shifty:

:shifty:

Casey
05-31-2014, 04:16 AM
2, a girl and a boy to carry the family name on. If it was 2 girls I would probably adopt a boy.

Colonel Angus
05-31-2014, 04:39 AM
Carrying on the family name is overrated. I'm giving all my children the surname Bunansa.

starlet
05-31-2014, 04:58 AM
Ive already decided I don't want kids. If I had the option, I'd actually get my tubes tied.

Sephex
05-31-2014, 08:10 AM
I don't know.

Alive-Cat
05-31-2014, 09:59 AM
Four, all relatively close in ages. Oldest is tops seven years older than the youngest. That means the woman who shall be birthing my brood will have to be quite the machine. And after all that pregnant we'll have four crazy kids running around. Five if including me.

I like a challenge.

Vermachtnis
06-01-2014, 01:14 AM
I'm not really planning on having any kids, but if I don't then that's a bajillion year combo break. That's a lot of responsibility to put on a man!

Shiny
06-01-2014, 03:16 AM
Two, and at least three years apart please no twins kthanx. I'm kind of against having just one child, because only children tend to be little assholes, but if I just have one that's fine too. If he/she is really adorable and smart that willl make up for him/her being a little asshole.
:shifty:

Guessing you're an only child?
Maybe. :shifty:

:shifty:

http://wayofthemoneysaver.files.wordpress.com/2010/05/suspicious-fry.jpg

Raistlin
06-01-2014, 04:08 AM
None. Fuck kids.

And before it's posted because I know it's incoming: NOT IN THE CHRIS HANSEN WAY.

Shorty
06-01-2014, 04:09 AM
"fuck kids" he says

Kalevala
06-01-2014, 04:10 AM
I love that I've exposed you all for what you really are.

Night Fury
06-01-2014, 06:28 AM
I want to have 2. I hope one of them is a girl, because if I get to 2 kids and they're both little shithead boys I will be so mad! :lol:

Colonel Angus
06-01-2014, 06:40 AM
I want to have 2. I hope one of them is a girl, because if I get to 2 kids and they're both little trouthead boys I will be so mad! :lol:
You could end up w/ 2 little trouthead girls.

Night Fury
06-01-2014, 06:40 AM
This is sadly so true :(

Shorty
06-01-2014, 06:41 AM
I'd rather girls than boys, tbh

Pumpkin
06-01-2014, 06:41 AM
I like my son :monster:

Night Fury
06-01-2014, 06:45 AM
I'd like one of each, honestly. Not two of either gender.

Kalevala
06-01-2014, 07:07 AM
I'd like one of each, honestly. Not two of either gender.

This would be ideal. No more than two, for sure.

maybee
06-01-2014, 09:45 AM
Zero really, no babies.



Though I wouldn't mind adopting a orphan or a rescuing a child from a abusive home/ family.

Ayen
06-01-2014, 10:08 AM
One would be enough for me if I ever have kids. You see, I really love babies, when they're other people's babies. So then I can be like, "Hai! Who's a cute little babeh? You are! Yes you are! Yes you are! Look at these little hands, and feet, and nose! I got your nose! Yes I do! I got your nose! Okay, I'm done. You can have him back now."

Carl the Llama
06-01-2014, 03:19 PM
I only want one child, and then I can spoil him/her rotten and not feel guilty. If there is one thing I have learned about babies is that they take a shitload of your free time and smell at the most unfortunate times, so with this in mind I would most likely want to adopt a child, as for age I would say 3 or 4 at least.

Aulayna
06-01-2014, 03:23 PM
0

I might possibly adopt. But right now, 0.

Rocket Edge
06-01-2014, 03:43 PM
About 4. I'd like a big enough family.

Formalhaut
06-01-2014, 05:10 PM
I'd rather girls than boys, tbh

Me too, but I think for practical reasons it may be 'easier' for me and Sam to raise boys, because we are both men, so we are immediately at a disadvantage if we get a girl, particularly as she grows older.

Pike
06-01-2014, 05:38 PM
I'd rather girls than boys, tbh

I'd have no idea how to raise a girl.

"Mom how do I wear makeup?"

"I dunno"

"Mom how do I do nails?"

"I dunno"

"Mom how can you tell how clothes match"

"I dunno"

"Mom are these earrings pretty?"

"I dunno, go ask your father"

Shorty
06-01-2014, 05:41 PM
These are all examples of things I never asked my mother and figured out for myself from friends, cousins, tv, books, magazines, etc, and as such, we have conflicting and opposing styles and preferences.

Pike
06-01-2014, 05:42 PM
See, I'm worried that that's what would end up happening and then my daughter would hate me or something :( :(

Shorty
06-01-2014, 06:02 PM
I guess my relationship with my mother was a poor example to provide xD

Madame Adequate
06-01-2014, 06:06 PM
I'd rather girls than boys, tbh

I'd have no idea how to raise a girl.

"Mom how do I wear makeup?"

"I dunno"

"Mom how do I do nails?"

"I dunno"

"Mom how can you tell how clothes match"

"I dunno"

"Mom are these earrings pretty?"

"I dunno, go ask your father"

To be fair I can answer these so :grover:

NeoCracker
06-01-2014, 07:49 PM
Saddly I lack a basement to keep them in. :cry:

blackmage_nuke
06-01-2014, 08:17 PM
I'd prefer a boy since I think I would find him easier to raise and since females get 70% of what males get for the same job, when im old and theyre fed up with me they'll be able to afford a nicer nursing home with hotter nurses

Kalevala
06-01-2014, 10:01 PM
See, I'm worried that that's what would end up happening and then my daughter would hate me or something :( :(

Maybe not. I learned most of what I know (from practical knowledge to the complex) from books, magazines, or media in general. I still love my parents. We agree on very little, but I love them nonetheless.

Jess
06-01-2014, 10:21 PM
One or two.

At the moment, though, the idea of being pregnant and giving birth really doesn't appeal to me, so it'll be a good few years until I think of having any little humans. :jess:

Yamaneko
06-01-2014, 10:49 PM
2 to 14

Calliope
06-01-2014, 11:41 PM
zero

Calliope
06-07-2014, 05:07 AM
Double post to say: What happened to the last five days?

Miss Mae
06-07-2014, 05:52 AM
No days have passed. It's just been one long ​day.

Ayen
06-07-2014, 07:30 PM
No days have passed. It's just been one long ​day.

So this is what it feels like to be Jack Bauer.

Calliope
06-07-2014, 08:54 PM
Or Bill Murray!

chionos
06-07-2014, 10:03 PM
Parenthood as summarized by Groundhog's Day:

Phil: What would you do if you were stuck in one place and every day was exactly the same, and nothing that you did mattered?

Ralph: That about sums it up for me.

The Man
06-09-2014, 07:01 AM
I definitely don't want biological babies under any circumstances unless genetic engineering (a) becomes a thing and (b) becomes affordable, and even then it's conditional on them figuring out the genetic codes that have made me miserable throughout my life and ensuring a way not to pass them on. If that happens I may think of having one biological child, but even still probably not.

I'm not entirely closed off to the idea of adopting, but I also don't think I'd be a very good parent.

Jiro
06-10-2014, 12:05 PM
yeah, I can agree with that.

Shiny
06-10-2014, 01:44 PM
because we are both men, so we are immediately at a disadvantage if we get a girl, particularly as she grows older.
Why is that?

Parker
06-10-2014, 01:50 PM
heeeere we go

chionos
06-11-2014, 01:47 PM
because we are both men, so we are immediately at a disadvantage if we get a girl, particularly as she grows older.
Why is that?

I'm guessing he means that they wouldn't have enough experience to deal with particularly "girly" things. They wouldn't have the understanding that a woman would have, the empathy of having gone through the same things.

That's how I take his meaning in any case.

Thing is, no manner of experience prepares one adequately for child rearing. Each child is unique and brings a variety of experiences and trials to the relationship, which can never be predicted beforehand and must be met with ingenuity and grace each and every time. Which is not easy, no matter boy or girl or in between.

Formalhaut
06-11-2014, 02:25 PM
because we are both men, so we are immediately at a disadvantage if we get a girl, particularly as she grows older.
Why is that?

I'm guessing he means that they wouldn't have enough experience to deal with particularly "girly" things. They wouldn't have the understanding that a woman would have, the empathy of having gone through the same things.

That's how I take his meaning in any case.

Basically this. I mean, I wouldn't know much about make-up, or the menstrual cycle, or other topics. I should just clarify, I wouldn't be against having a girl, not in the slightest. It's just, predicting how things would go, at least in those areas, I wouldn't have much immediate experience - I would naturally pick it up though, of course.

Shauna
06-11-2014, 03:25 PM
I would naturally pick it up though, of course.

From experience of being a female for 23 years, I have barely managed to pick up all that woman stuff, good luck "naturally" picking it up. x}

Formalhaut
06-11-2014, 03:30 PM
I'd think as a parent Shauna, you would have to pick it up pretty quickly!

Shauna
06-11-2014, 03:36 PM
Dunno man. My Dad is a great guy, but god damn, he's not the most useful when it comes to dealing with me and my ~woman stuff~. :p He tries his best, and I appreciate his efforts... but yeah.

That is probably entirely related to my mother being on the scene for all that sort of thing for myself and my sister, so perhaps it would be different in a lady-less partnership/household. Who knows. xD

Basically not having experience of things doesn't have too much of an effect on your ability to be a good parent. x} As long as you have basic knowledge!

Miss Mae
06-11-2014, 03:56 PM
Dunno man. My Dad is a great guy, but god damn, he's not the most useful when it comes to dealing with me and my ~woman stuff~. :p He tries his best, and I appreciate his efforts... but yeah.

That is probably entirely related to my mother being on the scene for all that sort of thing for myself and my sister, so perhaps it would be different in a lady-less partnership/household. Who knows. xD

Basically not having experience of things doesn't have too much of an effect on your ability to be a good parent. x} As long as you have basic knowledge!
If it helps, my mum and dad were both pretty useless at this sort of thing. Mum just threw some menstrual products at me at around the right age and told me to ask if I had any questions. I promptly used the internet instead.

Shorty
06-11-2014, 04:03 PM
Got it from neither parent. I had to figure it out from my school's sex ed, friends, and a section I stumbled across at the Barnes & Noble bookstore.

Formalhaut
06-11-2014, 04:03 PM
Dunno man. My Dad is a great guy, but god damn, he's not the most useful when it comes to dealing with me and my ~woman stuff~. :p He tries his best, and I appreciate his efforts... but yeah.

That is probably entirely related to my mother being on the scene for all that sort of thing for myself and my sister, so perhaps it would be different in a lady-less partnership/household. Who knows. xD

Basically not having experience of things doesn't have too much of an effect on your ability to be a good parent. x} As long as you have basic knowledge!
If it helps, my mum and dad were both pretty useless at this sort of thing. Mum just threw some menstrual products at me at around the right age and told me to ask if I had any questions. I promptly used the internet instead.

Did you not have any friends, or other female relatives you could talk to?

The internet is a wonderful resource but a trusted relative or friend means alot I'm sure.

Miss Mae
06-11-2014, 04:12 PM
I only have two other female relatives, and they are much older and live interstate. My friends were primarily male.

Formalhaut
06-11-2014, 04:15 PM
Fair enough! I like to think when I have children, I'd be able to make the experience as un-awkward as can be.

chionos
06-11-2014, 04:19 PM
Fair enough! I like to think when I have children, I'd be able to make the experience as un-awkward as can be.

Sorry Formy, I can't imagine the experience being anything but painfully and amazingly awkward for you and even more for your children.

You should make a sex-ed video Forms, so we can all know the awkwardness.

Pumpkin
06-11-2014, 05:03 PM
I never wore makeup so I would be useless at teaching girls that too. They would say 'Mommy how do I put on lipstick" and I would say "You don't."

My mother, who wanted very little to do with me during my childhood years, was suddenly interested in teaching me about my period when I first got it and also around 12 when she wanted me to start shaving. Coincidentally, these were the exact things I didn't need/want her to be a mother for. I knew what a period was, and I knew how to put on a pad. You just unwrap it and stick it on your panties, not too complicated. Also, I wasn't ready to start shaving at 12, despite her thinking I should be, and I basically just started on my own a year or so later.

blackmage_nuke
06-11-2014, 08:17 PM
My parents gave me no sex ed and neither did my primary school (I switched schools at one point so I think maybe everyone learnt it the next year in my old school and everyone learnt it a year earlier in my new school)

I didn't have internet access

What little I knew I learnt from Encarta encyclopedia. I was almost oblivious going into Highschool

Formalhaut
06-11-2014, 08:38 PM
Fair enough! I like to think when I have children, I'd be able to make the experience as un-awkward as can be.

Sorry Formy, I can't imagine the experience being anything but painfully and amazingly awkward for you and even more for your children.

You should make a sex-ed video Forms, so we can all know the awkwardness.

Thanks for the vote of confidence there.

Shiny
06-11-2014, 08:39 PM
Sucks for you guys for not having a dad that understands your woman trout. Also I learned to put on makeup myself but there are plenty of makeup tutorials on YouTube now. Saying you wouldn't be a good parent to either sex is a poor excuse nowadays unless you're just a horrible person.

chionos
06-11-2014, 08:42 PM
Fair enough! I like to think when I have children, I'd be able to make the experience as un-awkward as can be.

Sorry Formy, I can't imagine the experience being anything but painfully and amazingly awkward for you and even more for your children.

You should make a sex-ed video Forms, so we can all know the awkwardness.

Thanks for the vote of confidence there.

Anytime, buddy!

Pumpkin
06-11-2014, 08:47 PM
I will say some of raising a boy has already been awkward. Especially when it comes to penis stuff. I just have no idea

Formalhaut
06-11-2014, 08:50 PM
Sucks for you guys for not having a dad that understands your woman trout. Also I learned to put on makeup myself but there are plenty of makeup tutorials on YouTube now. Saying you wouldn't be a good parent to either sex is a poor excuse nowadays unless you're just a horrible person.

!

I'm not expressly stating that I wouldn't be a good parent to a girl, I'm saying that it would take me longer to understand feminine issues and topics.

Shiny
06-12-2014, 06:49 AM
Did you just do the Metal Gear Solid exclamation point at me? How dare you!

I'm sure you'll make a fine parnt regardless of what you have.

Shauna
06-12-2014, 10:31 AM
My Dad was really fine for the most part. x}

The kicker was the one day I had horrendous cramps and his comment on the matter was "It really shouldn't hurt at all, there must be something wrong". I was pretty :stare: about that one, but despite his scoff at my physical and emotional pain, he got me painkillers and a hot water bottle and let my lie in bed all day, so in the end he understood exactly what it was I needed at that point in time.

Delorean
06-12-2014, 10:33 AM
I think 2 is good.

Like, 10 years from now. <_<

Colonel Angus
06-12-2014, 11:17 PM
I will say some of raising a boy has already been awkward. Especially when it comes to penis stuff. I just have no idea
Trust me, as a guy who was raised by his mom, I know he'll NEVER want to talk to you about "penis stuff".

Ayen
06-13-2014, 12:13 AM
Guys, just apply makeup to your faces. Then pass on your knowledge to your children.

Pumpkin
06-13-2014, 01:15 AM
I will say some of raising a boy has already been awkward. Especially when it comes to penis stuff. I just have no idea
Trust me, as a guy who was raised by his mom, I know he'll NEVER want to talk to you about "penis stuff".

I know that but when he was a baby there were some awkward diaper change moments that I just



had to call a male friend about :-/

BustaMo
06-13-2014, 02:51 AM
Honestly between 2 and 4 will be what I'd like, so I voted 3 ideally. I'll be 28 and my soon to be wife will be 23 in 2 weeks when we get married, so she's still young enough to make this happen I think. haha I guess it all depends on her getting done with college the next 2 years.

Mahad
06-15-2014, 06:47 AM
Idk. Max 4. Would probably like at least two.

Christmas
06-15-2014, 02:22 PM
I am not sure how many kids my vagina can poo out before it goes out of service. :(

Alive-Cat
06-15-2014, 03:01 PM
I am not sure how many kids my vagina can poo out before it goes out of service. :(

You would be the best mother in the universe though!