do you have hope for your childrens future?

[Angel Rot]

Hello everyone,
I've been wanting to ask this question for a long time, but i have never asked anyone I know for fear of insulting them. I don't mean to offend anyone, but I was hoping some people would offer their opinions. I don't have children and I don't plan on having any. Between global warming and nuclear war, I'm basically convinced that we're all doomed. It puzzles me that people still have children, and people still want to have children and raise them to be apart of this disaster we call humanity. My question is, do you feel that your children will have a good future? Are you afraid for their survival? I would really like to hear what others have to say about this.

[St. Theresa]

I totally understand where you're coming from, but you have to have some hope for the future, whether you have kids or not. Otherwise, life is kind of pointless. (And I don't mean it's pointless to NOT have kids.)

Sometimes I'm not all that optimistic, and I wonder why people run around to make money or create things or make things pretty when one day, they're just going to die. I, like, almost get a hedonistic point of view about day-to-day life.

But you have to act as if there's a tomorrow, all the while knowing someday there won't be, so you shouldn't put anything off. There's no way to know what the future will bring, so why not always hold on to the hope that it may be brighter than you think?

[PotatoFace]

No I don't fear for my childs furture. After all, I had her so that the world could be blessed with my gene's longer than I will be inhabiting it. The world is a better place for me having bred.

[St. Theresa]

I had kids because of all the special privileges I get. The world belongs to me because I had a crotch-dropping.

[NightRose]

I have hopes that my son will grow up happy and healthy and have a family of his own. And if he chooses not to have one then I am ok with that as well.

If people didn't have children because of fear of the world today we would quickly die out. Sure the world isn't as safe as when I was a child but that isn't going to stop me from raising children. I hope to have another soon. My son will be 8 in Nov and I had him young which can make it harder but I think I am doing a damn fine good job of raising him. It's our job to raise them with values that will protect them as they grow older and become adults themselves.

[St. Theresa]

I used to think it was a dumb idea to have kids, because I was sure the world was going to end by this century.

And no, things don't look very good, but every generation has had its problems and its dangers. WWII, for example, was a lousy time, and people sure didn't stop having kids because of it.

[MyNameisWarts]

It seems that in every era, people think the time in which they happen to live is either a) something very very unique and special or b) the beginning of the end. So far, neither has ever really been fully true...

[entropy]

i balanced alll of this by adopting a child that was already created and forgoing on the procreating part. yeah.

I hope for my daughter future, yeah. she's a fighter.