lulz @ tax breaks... just like marriage comes with tax breaks.
We never wanted kids. We even had a spreadsheet that scored all the reasons to have and not to have them. Then I got to about 35 and realized we'd already done most everything we wanted in DINK life. I remember asking myself, "what's the point of life?" around that time. After a lot of thought, the only real answer I could come up with was bringing life into the world and ensuring 1) it had a happy life, and 2) I used it as an opportunity to leave the world a better place than I found it.
You will be poorer and much more exhausted by having a kid. People like to talk about how that's all so worth it. Honestly, it's a wash in my mind... but I really enjoy getting to see the world for the first time all over again through his eyes. It's definitely the most self-less thing I've done in my lifetime.
We never wanted kids. We even had a spreadsheet that scored all the reasons to have and not to have them. Then I got to about 35 and realized we'd already done most everything we wanted in DINK life. I remember asking myself, "what's the point of life?" around that time. After a lot of thought, the only real answer I could come up with was bringing life into the world and ensuring 1) it had a happy life, and 2) I used it as an opportunity to leave the world a better place than I found it.
You will be poorer and much more exhausted by having a kid. People like to talk about how that's all so worth it. Honestly, it's a wash in my mind... but I really enjoy getting to see the world for the first time all over again through his eyes. It's definitely the most self-less thing I've done in my lifetime.
'76 911S | '14 328xi | '17 GTI | In memoriam: '08 848, '85 944
"Here, at last, is the cure for texting while driving. The millions of deaths which occur every year due to the iPhone’s ability to stream the Kim K/Ray-J video in 4G could all be avoided, every last one of them, if the government issued everyone a Seventies 911 and made sure they always left the house five minutes later than they’d wanted to. It would help if it could be made to rain as well. Full attention on the road. Guaranteed." -Jack Baruth
"Here, at last, is the cure for texting while driving. The millions of deaths which occur every year due to the iPhone’s ability to stream the Kim K/Ray-J video in 4G could all be avoided, every last one of them, if the government issued everyone a Seventies 911 and made sure they always left the house five minutes later than they’d wanted to. It would help if it could be made to rain as well. Full attention on the road. Guaranteed." -Jack Baruth