Is It Worth It?

[Inferius]

Just wondering about all you parents out there.

Is it worth it in the end to raise a child/children?

I've asked many about the highlight of their lives and parents
always tend to say it was the birth of their children.

Whats your take?

Inferius Reviewed by Inferius on 01-11-2007. Is It Worth It? Just wondering about all you parents out there. Is it worth it in the end to raise a child/children? I've asked many about the highlight of their lives and parents always tend to say it was the birth of their children. Whats your take? :o Rating: 5

[b0Ng h!tz 4 mE]

to have a child is to give up your own live just to have em use all your money time and effort

id guess no.. maybe i shud try it..

[xxxhazexxx]

yes it is,im a single dad of 4, 16 14 13 10 and its the most rewarding thing you can do,i fucking love bringing my kids up on my own

[HiProGlow]

to have a child is to give up your own live just to have em use all your money time and effort

id guess no.. maybe i shud try it..

OMG are you for real? Is that what you really think or are you just looking for attention? To have a child is to give life, the highest honor that a person can achieve on this planet! You think growing weed is awesome? Sure, a marijuana plant has it's rewards but those rewards DULL in comparison to the extreme love that children bring. You never truly love unconditionally until you have children. Not your husband/wife, not your family. For example, you only love your spouse under conditions, but children, well, if you are even slightly human, you love them forever no matter what the conditions! To this day I don't understand why someone would want to miss out on that, but hey, to each their own! Peace!

[xxxhazexxx]

fucking right u hit the nail right on the head

[b0Ng h!tz 4 mE]

I rather live my life without getting woken up by screaming or having some fucker there always asking me to buy them things with my money

as you said, to each they're own.. but no, i dont see the point in having a kid tbh

[slipknotpsycho]

i can't answer your poll lol.. i'm inbetween two answers... it definately is worth having one.... and i'm more inclined to answer the first response... but.. i would have liked to waited til maybe we were a bit better off financially, back then, we were basicly just all around fucked financially, we're actually doing aLOT better now.. it can be really traumatic worrying whether or not you are going to be able to afford your babies needs... in the begining when things were bad.. i'd often go hungry, just to make sure my wife had food to help produce breast milk and so that the baby would have what he needed... when we got on food stamps it was a sigh of relief.... a huge one..

but i'm glad we had this child.. i mean if it had been later on... there's virtually no chance he'd be the same child and i've grown quite attatched to this one i'm sure i woulda loved any child we had just the same tho... i guess, just don't plan to have a baby (like actually TRY and have one) until you're financially stable (and believe me, raising a child isn't cheap lol) use all your government funded help you can... medicare, food stamps, wic... every little bit helps... but it's not very good to have to depend on it... cuz that shit can be cut at any time... and if you are completely dependant upon it.... well you'll be in a bad bad situation if that happens...

[PatrickHenry]

I can't wait to have kids and see my family continue to grow larger and stronger. Family is the most important thing to me in my life. I would give up cannabis in a heart beat for my family.

Not sure I agree with loving kids more than a spouse though. The relationship you have with your spouse is of immense importance. You spend the REST of your life with your spouse, the time you spent with your kids is relatively short (although obviously of extreme importance).

[slipknotpsycho]

I rather live my life without getting woken up by screaming or having some fucker there always asking me to buy them things with my money

as you said, to each they're own.. but no, i dont see the point in having a kid tbh

lol... because my wife had post partum (sp?) depression after having the baby, i ended up being the one to raise him for about 3 months straight (for about a month before that, we had a schedule... she would take 12 hours and i'd take 12 hours) man it was hell... i did it, and would of never thought to stop doing it... but i'm not going to lie, i fucking hated it... waking up every 3 hours to feed/change him my schedule basicly went: go to sleep, get woke up in a couple of hours, feed him/change him.. put him in his swing/crib try and finish sleeping, maybe fall asleep an hour later so i get at most another 2 hours of sleep, repeat that last part again, but this time when i get woke up i'd be up for the day... i'd lay him on my chest and watch tv, or hold him in my arms so he can watch too... after awhile put him in his swing.. keep him entertained... til i get completely worn out (there was no getting tired i was ALWAYS tired, and i mean like the tired you'd get after working a 12 hour shit where you're on your feet all day) and then start from the begining all over again.

i'm just glad as all kinds of hell those days are over... now is the begining of the good days... where he's learning to talk, and play around, and discovering the world around him... it's amazing to sit there and watch what he can/does do...i know i say it all the time... but i just don't ever feel i get the significance of what i'm trying to say across... it's something you'd just have to go through yourself to understand how it makes you feel in side to sit there and watch him play with his toys (like one where you have to match up the shaped blocks with the holes in the 'base' or his little xylaphone (sp?)) or flip a light switch over and over, or climb up on the chairs/cough, or feed himself, or turn our light switch which is a dimmer switch, or sit there playing with the buttons on the tv, turning it up and down, changing the channel turning it off and on... and the smiles he gets, and the things he says (they're not real words, or some are, but he can't quite say them right yet) and his laughs.... man.. everytime i see him i hear this part of dave chapelle's for what it's worth (stand up comedy) "this is fucking crazy.... you used to live in my balls man!"

[HiProGlow]

Hey PatrickHenry, what I meant was that you'll love your wife only as long as she respects you and loves you or as long as she's not cheating on you continuously, ad etc...but your children might put you through hell and there you'd be, still loving them. Peace