I would like a cat and dog if I had a bungalow with garden
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I never wanted or had children.
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I would like for my mother to have grand children of her own, but that’s not going to happen I am afraid.
before i became ill i did want a child now i dont think it is a good idea AT ALL 
…for me personally
No, I believe I will be working, hopefully soon, in freelance web design, but I can’t provide a good life for a child.
I don’t believe not procreating makes one a failure or freak or even 1% inferior.
Plus I have short years before the way my body reproduces my dna in my sperm cells starts having minor copying errors or probability for it increases.
Some of the women in my age range also would be at increased risk for miscarriage.
I couldn’t imagine putting a woman through pregnancy and labor so I can be a father at my age.
For me I think having children would be a selfish, irresponsible, and foolish choice.
I have every right to make this judgement.
It does nothing to diminish anyone else’s happiness, whether potential or already realized.
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If you don’t want children, don’t let others control your internal narrative.
Liking or not liking people based on that is arbitrary and just plain silly.
Who needs such people in their lives?
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It was never on my priority list.
No kids for me
Plus I’m too damned old
I used to want kids, but the mere thought of passing sz to a child is too sad to want kids. Maybe adoption one day but in my current state I can barely take care of myself, I don’t want to confine a child to my limitations.
When I was in my late teens, I wanted a baby boy very, very badly. So, at 19, I got pregnant. This was all before I knew I was sza. I wasn’t diagnosed sza until I turned 34. Luckily for me, I never wanted more than one child because the single child I had, developed p.sz himself at age 19. And he died from suicide 11 years later.
Now, happily, I’m too old to get pregnant.
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I’ve written about my worries in the past about it on here. But I’m feeling more positive about it now thanks to my b vitamins and exercise. It seems more possible now. I’m healthier and am developing ways of soothing myself that I can pass on. I think we will, and I’m still plenty young enough. I struggle with forgetfulness a lot but I will just have to develop strategies. I think it is a beautiful blessing to give a child life and an opportunity to give back to the world. I hope I can teach my children how to think positively and be kind.
I have a herd of children. I never planned on having so many, the last two were “oops” babies. My form of birth control didn’t work two separate types, two times. But I love each of the kids like crazy.
It’s very hard to raise kids, even more so as a sza parent.
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If I had money I would have used hired a surgeon to make me sterile or however it’s called in English.
With a 7% chance of a kid to inherit schizophrenia from any single of the parents? I inherited mine from my mother’s side, it seems to be. So no, never, I will never submit neither a kid nor a woman to this suffering.
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“If one parent is affected the risk is about 13% and if both are affected the risk is nearly 50%”
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I want four kids. Two girls and two boys. But I’m not sure if I’ll ever fall in love, so I might have to get a surrogate mother one day.
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What age are u?
25 years young.
If having a baby is a priority for you, you better get to it. There is an author by the name of Lori Gottlieb that wrote Marry Him - Settling for Mr Good Enough (awesome audible book)or something like that that urges women not to wait until their late 30s or they wont make it in time. She also talks a lot about having a baby and then thinking that she would find “Mr Right” and how that did not work out.
Adjacent topic, why people are so opposed to adopt children? A decade before my schizophrenia and since I was dedicated to the idea that I will only marry a woman that will accept our first child to be adopted.
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Mr good enough lol