I like kids. I find value in their viewpoint and am amazed that the infinite potential they hold. I would love to have kids. I have three younger brothers and already a few nephews and nieces. I have SO many cousins who also already have kids. The Mackenzie line is long from over.
I’m sort of the opposite of many people on this one. There are so many who want a son for the name sake…
In my family… it’s the women with the strength to keep us men together. My Mom, my Grandmother, my Aunt and my sister are the strong cool ones. They are the ones who know how to handle a major crisis not just a Mental Illness crisis. I would love a son too. I would treasure either. But a daughter would be a blessing in this family. Something about this family produces very intelligent, very talented women. I just always pictured myself with a daughter. But again, daughter or son…. I would be very happy to be a father.
I chose to not have kids because I knew I would never be able to support them on disability and regrettably I passed up some decent romantic opportunities in part for that reason. I also didn’t want to pass the misery of this disease to the next generation. I have however enjoyed visiting my nieces along with one I saw frequently whose on her own now and watching them develop. I used to worry one of them would get schizophrenia as there is a slightly increased chance. but I’m not so scared of that now as they are doing fine so far.
POLICE: Suspect in body parts case is victim’s mom
Woman arrested in body parts case.
This is in my neck of the woods.
Police arrested a woman they said is responsible for killing and dismembering her 32-year-old son and dumping his body parts in China and St. Clair townships.
A 59-year-old St. Clair Shores woman was arrested Friday evening, according to a statement from the St. Clair Shores Police and St. Clair County Sheriff Department.
People in developed countries are having less and less kids. I’ve raised girlfriends kids and its constant. Not doing it again though I’m glad I got the chance. Also worried my genes are older and that increases the chance for dysfunctional genes. I believe in 100’s of years all countries will be developed and gov. will have to make sure the population doesn’t stop growing.
I have decided early in my life that I don’t want children. I got a vasectomy before I got married. My ex wife also didn’t want any children. I didn’t want any children because the world is so over populated. Today I am glad I didn’t had any because I don’t think I would have been able to live with myself if my genes carried over schizophrenia to any of my children.
I was actually thinking this exact thought the other day. My mom saw her mom die a long drawn out death, I saw my mom die a long and painful death. Mental illness runs in our blood just as strong as addiction/alcoholism. And now i look on to my niece and nephew. Going through the same thing with their father, my brother in law he is my family. Oh so much pain and torment. I was thinking, there is joy in life, but the torment and pain we feel WAY out weighs the joy. It scars you for life. If this is what future generations are going to have to go through, and then eventually meet their own demise…and if they have children they leave grieving in their wake…man what a cycle to keep on going! Did i want children? yes i did, i wanted to share my genetics with the world and homeschool and raise a freethinker and be excited to see their accomplishments. But now? with our crappy food, crappy education system, failed economy, it’s almost like if you aren’t rich, your children won’t have the “best” chance at life (healthy organic food, time to homeschool, provide a nice home) and it almost seems selfish, i realized hey…i think i only want this kid because i think it will fulfill me somehow. but living on SSDI, in an apartment, in a crappy part of town? Not how i would want to raise someone who will eventually die. Not morbid, just real. Painfully real.
hmmm don’t really know what to say on this. i love my kids to bits but they have suffered immeasurably simply because i’m their mother…if i could take it away i would but i can’t. all i can hope for is that their future is better than their past. now with my daughter’s problems i don’t think that that’s going to happen and it makes me very very angry and sad for her. time will tell how bad it gets and whether the same will happen to my daughter as it did to me and whether or not my son will suffer the same fate. if i hadn’t have had the past i had they would never have been born so i’m thankful for that much at least but their future shouldn’t have to be marred simply bcoz i’m their mother.
Please don’t say that. I see a lot of fight in you, I think you are an awesome mother. I have seen some women with no mental illness who I think shouldn’t be within 10 feet of a kid. You are kicking butt and you look after your kids. I think your doing really well by them. They lost their dad and you are keeping strong. I admire that in you.
