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Old 04-11-2008, 02:23 PM   #4 (permalink)
Marco Polo
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If my circumstances are favourable to make it happen, I want at least 2-3 children of my own. However, I'm still young and that prospect may be far off.

I can totally understand why some people would skip the whole family-life thing. Looking at my brother struggling with it, it's not easy to be a family man and dedicate yourself to work at the same time.

However, I do believe wanting babies is more than just a primal urge. I mean, logically we need 2.1 babies/woman or we perish, that's just simple mathematics. If everybody suddenly says "well, they're too much of a liability" and don't make babies, well eventually there would be no one left to enjoy a career oriented, child free life, would there?

So I guess I'm saying I believe in individual choice, but also in our continued existence (not that the extinction of Homo Sapiens is imminent or anything).
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