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[mizzwanned]

Originally Posted by missj2007

I agree . Now with the age issue my aunts on my father's side waited until they were 40 and up to have their kids because they were into adavancing their careers and are doing quite well, on my mom's side my aunts had their children young and were married young. My grandmother believes every woman should have at least one child. I don't believe it because children are not for everyone and a person will come to know this on their own not by someone telling them if they should or shouldn't. With genetics well we all have things that come up in our family down the ine or whatever. I still want to have kids even though my family is ridden with diabetes and high blood pressure, not because I want to pass on bad genes but because I want there to be future smart and animal lover people like me in this world when I am long gone lol

I so agree! Kids are not for everyone! I know someone who doesn't really pay her daughter that much attention, she works works works and that's good but there has to be a balance. It's like she doesn't know how to raise her. I think she's better of w/o kids.

[Monday]

Originally Posted by Baby Madeleine

I know how you feel. I felt the same way until recently when I got engaged

It's no big deal when you aren't interested in marriage or kids, but when that is what you want it's hard to watch everyone around you have the experiences.

Yay!!! Someone got engaged.
We wish you the very best.
I personally LOVE good news.

G*O*O*D L*U*C*K!!!!

[Kelz]

wow all my friends are prego or married too.. so i know the feeling!! i always feel behind or something

[Janie616]

I am not married, but my boyfriend and I plan on getting married as soon as we each get our PhD degrees. I will be in my late 20s.

We have friends that span the spectrum from singles to engaged to married, to married with children.

Each of them seems happy in their chosen situation. But that is the important word... chosen.
They all made choices.

Some people are mature enough to be parents at 20, some need more time.

In my internship at the hospital, I deal with unwed teenage mothers and I fear for the future of the children.
The girls are still in high school. Their parenting skills need to be developed.
Some girls are from middle income families so they will have some help from their families,
but the lower income girls are the ones I worry about.

This is a very controversial topic.

[meglaulanmar]

Wait until someday when you are close to your 20yr reunion and you start meeting up on facebook or whatever is popular then and you see everyone you grew up w/ now has wrinkles and gray hair and you still feel young and think you look young...lol!

[TommiGirl]

Originally Posted by meglaulanmar

Wait until someday when you are close to your 20yr reunion and you start meeting up on facebook or whatever is popular then and you see everyone you grew up w/ now has wrinkles and gray hair and you still feel young and think you look young...lol!

Have you ever been guilty of looking at others your own age and thinking, "Surely I can't look that old?"

I was sitting in the waiting room for my first appointment with a new dentist.
I noticed his name on his DDS diploma. I recalled the name and remembered a tall, handsome,
dark-haired boy that had been in my high school class some 30-odd years ago.

Could this be the same guy that I had a secret crush on back then?

However, upon seeing him, I quickly discarded that idea when I saw that this balding gray-haired man
with many lines on his face was way too old to have been my classmate.
Hmmmm or could he have been?

After he examined my teeth, I asked him if he had attended Morgan Park High School.

"Yes, Yes, I did .... I'm a Morgan High Mustang!!" He gleamed with pride.
"When did you graduate?" I asked.
He answered, "In 1969, why do you ask?"

"You were in my class," I exclaimed.
He looked at me closely.

Then that ugly, old, wrinkled son-of-a b*tch asked,
"What subject did you teach?"

[Janie616]

Originally Posted by TommiGirl

Then that ugly, old, wrinkled son-of-a b*tch asked,
"What subject did you teach?"

Hahahahahahaha, I just saw this, it's funny.

[mminichan]

Yea..I know..I am actually having this problem too!!! Most of my friends here (America) are either married with or w/o kids!!! But then back home (Asia), most of my friends are not married!!! So, one side of the world would ask me..."when are you getting married?"..and the other side of the world would ask me..."wow, you are getting married already?" ahh.....

and the kids Qs....my plan is to be a mom of 2 by 30? we will see if that happen......I don't want to have too big gap of age difference with my kids....but we will see!