Is having a child too severe a punishment?

[DS1]

:D

Unlockable?

[alittlelark]

1. On the mother...... perhaps

Being pregnant sucks, and childbirth REALLY sucks.

[DS1]

2. I wasn't even thinking about the birthing process

It's raising them that strikes fear into my heart.

Of course, I'm a guy.

[Amaya]

6. Yes, be afraid

[notadmblnd]

12. but they're sooooo much fun

they really are. There's not a day goes by that they don't make me laugh with their pitiful little selves. I do fear for their futures though.

[JVS]

4. It doesn't sound like much fun for the kid either.

Sitting in the damp and darkness so long and then being squeezed out into the cold

[alittlelark]

10. People curl up into a fetal position in times of anxiety and stress....

... they do so because that was the most comfortable and secure time in their existence. They get thrust into the real world then.......

[El Fuego]

16. Aye, and some of them will spend their whole lives trying to get back in

[Left Is Write]

7. I rather enjoyed the whole thing, pregnancy, childbirth and all.

I did it three times.

[alittlelark]

15. I did not. I wasn't even sick or anything, but my back

got so bad I was going to the Chiropractor every other day (she gave me a Sunday appt - only for preg. patients).l I carried them high, my ribs turned, and my internal organs were shoved so high that I could barely breathe. Childbirth is oh so undignified !! My sister in law decided to sneak in and watch the birth. She barfed and had to be revived by one of MY nurses. My hubby had to be slapped to snap out of his horror. I had over 130 stiches and had to sit on a donut for 2 weeks.

LOVE the KID, HATE the PROCESS. Can't they just 'beam them out'??????

[oxymoron]

3. For the love of God

Give it a rest. :crazy:

[ogradda]

well i know there have been times

i've felt mine were a punishment i didn't deserve:P

[EstimatedProphet]

5. Some advice-NVER say a thread is unlockable

I am sure there are people here who will find a way to lock it...

[salin]

8. bush claims that he has been to war (hah!) and has raised

kids and that war was preferable... which I guess only suggests that being a dad was harder than serving the champaign unit of the guard that let you take unlimited time off...

[tjdee]

9. It's certainly selfish.

And I have one.

And I cry when people call me a breeder. :cry: It makes me sound like a cow.

[SarahB]

13. Go here:

It might cheer you up.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=238x852

[Mabus]

11. Only if it is YOUR child I'm having.

[DS1]

14. My child has a solid geneology, he'd be worth good money in

south east Asia

[Mabus]

22. as a punishment?

or just to feed your computer habits?

[Dookus]

17. No

having a child is the appropriate punishment for heterosexual sex.

[amerikat]

18. no......if it were.......we would all be"only children"

if one was actually made to have a child against her will......that would be a different story.

[JimmyJazz]

19. for your parents, maybe -- oh wait this isn't the insult thread...

my bad :P

[DS1]

20. hehehe

okay that made me laugh out loud. but not very hard, and briefly.

chump :D

[JimmyJazz]

21. Now, now -- you know it's really

"chumpette" ;)