My friends just recently had a baby. Now by recently I mean about three weeks ago. We just visited them tonight for the first time since the birth. <\/p>\n
I admire anyone who has the confidence and commitment to raise a child. However, I cannot imagine that I am old enough to have one and have it be socially acceptable. Many people I know have children or are pregnant, but I can’t begin to envision myself as a mother. I feel like I might just not know what to do with a kid. Do you play with it? Do you talk to it? How do you not let it bore you? <\/p>\n
I just want to put this question out there: What reasons do people have for having babies? I understand that the reasons are as widely varied as the parents, but I would really like to understand this. And here’s why. I feel, on the one hand, that I am getting to the age where people are going to start wondering when I will have babies. I don’t feel any want or need thereof, though. And I wonder if I am abnormal for this (nevermind the debate about the word normal). It seems like every other person I know who’s in a stable relationship either has children, is pregnant, or is planning to get pregnant soon. <\/p>\n
So if anyone is reading and cares, please help me understand why some people want kids and I don’t.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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