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nicholas_chiasson
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Location: Samcheok
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 Posted: Thu Feb 28, 2008 6:03 am Post subject: How do you explain to a woman... |
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I refuse to have kids...but we can adopt? I'm curious how they would respond to this. Generally I hear all this stuff about men wanting to pass on their genetic material, but I believe in letting the bad strains die out. As for reproduction rates, it seems more effective to take some poor kids and raise them rather than just making more. Lastly I have 2 adopted siblings and 2 biological siblings and the adopted ones are happier.
Also I don't like the idea of a pregnant wife at all. So how does one explain this? |
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Atavistic
Joined: 22 May 2006
Location: How totally stupid that Korean doesn't show in this area.
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| Posted: Thu Feb 28, 2008 6:05 am Post subject: |
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| Like you just did minus the bit about not wanting a pregnant wife. |
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Darashii
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| Posted: Thu Feb 28, 2008 6:11 am Post subject: |
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| The adopted siblings are happier because they were adopted? |
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nicholas_chiasson
Joined: 14 Jun 2007
Location: Samcheok
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| Posted: Thu Feb 28, 2008 6:23 am Post subject: |
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| no just happier people in general. Our genes are bad. |
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the_beaver
Joined: 15 Jan 2003
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| Posted: Thu Feb 28, 2008 6:35 am Post subject: |
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| nicholas_chiasson wrote: |
| no just happier people in general. Our genes are bad. |
That's the beauty of adoption. Do it the other way and you're stuck with the sperm-meets-egg-don't-know-what-fucking-concoction-will-pop-out lottery.
If you adopt you get to browse and get something that you might reasonably want. |
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d.coles
Joined: 10 Jan 2003
Location: Bucheon
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| Posted: Thu Feb 28, 2008 7:10 am Post subject: |
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| Atavistic wrote: |
| Like you just did minus the bit about not wanting a pregnant wife. |
^^I agree and maybe find a better word than 'refuse'. Personally, I feel the same way as the OP. I would much rather adopt a child than have my own. You might find someone who understands, and who knows you might change your mind when you get older. |
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Khenan
Joined: 25 Dec 2007
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| Posted: Thu Feb 28, 2008 7:23 am Post subject: Re: How do you explain to a woman... |
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| nicholas_chiasson wrote: |
Also I don't like the idea of a pregnant wife at all. |
Where do you think you came from?
(P.S., thanks for cleaning up the gene pool.) |
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the_beaver
Joined: 15 Jan 2003
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| Posted: Thu Feb 28, 2008 7:34 am Post subject: |
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| For the record, when looked at dispassionately there is nothing visually attractive about a pregnant woman. Remember those television images of Ethiopia in the 80s? Those kids with those bulging stomachs look about the same as a pregnant woman. |
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Hanson
Joined: 20 Oct 2004
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| Posted: Thu Feb 28, 2008 7:42 am Post subject: |
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| the_beaver wrote: |
If you adopt you get to browse and get something that you might reasonably want. |
Dude, that's up there with that piece on eating babies to solve the food shortages and overpopulation problems...  |
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the_beaver
Joined: 15 Jan 2003
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| Posted: Thu Feb 28, 2008 7:49 am Post subject: |
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| Hanson wrote: |
| Dude, that's up there with that piece on eating babies to solve the food shortages and overpopulation problems... |
A Modest Proposal by Jonathon Swift.
A good piece of writing, that. |
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Zaria32
Joined: 04 Dec 2007
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| Posted: Thu Feb 28, 2008 8:53 am Post subject: |
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Although I'm well beyond the bearing children time of lif, I did in fact give birth several times.
Although I have no emotional or other involvment in passingon my genes, I found that being pregnant, giving birth, and nursing a baby, were absolutely unbelievable...I loved it. Although I have adopted cousins, and am firmly a proposnent of adoption, and even had an adopted child of my own, I would nothave missed the pregnant, birthing, nursing thing for anything in the world. |
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jessiaka
Joined: 07 Jan 2006
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| Posted: Thu Feb 28, 2008 9:53 am Post subject: |
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Exactly how you just explained it.
INCLUDING the part about not wanting a pregnant wife.
This post made me laugh because it's exactly what my husband told me (not wanting to have biological children and pregnancy is a complete turn off to him). 
I'm glad he did, because I agree. |
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travel zen
Joined: 22 Feb 2005
Location: Good old Toronto, Canada
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| Posted: Thu Feb 28, 2008 11:24 am Post subject: |
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All of you would have been stoned with stones any time before the 20th century.
Such perverse ideas! Not having children and all !!!
Hrumphh.  |
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Czarjorge
Joined: 01 May 2007
Location: I now have the same moustache, and it is glorious.
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JustJohn
Joined: 18 Oct 2007
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| Posted: Thu Feb 28, 2008 6:23 pm Post subject: |
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| the_beaver wrote: |
| If you adopt you get to browse and get something that you might reasonably want. |
I lol'd. |
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