How rejuvenation can make motherhood (and more generally, parenthood) better.<\/p>\n
I\u2019m not really a children person. I know some people really are into having children and think that it\u2019s the most wonderful thing in life, but I\u2019m just not one of them. This is perfectly fine. Whether having children is a wonderful thing or not is a matter of opinion, and it is not true or false in an absolute sense. What\u2019s more, it\u2019s not necessarily set in stone forever: I don\u2019t like the idea now<\/em>, but I can\u2019t be 100% sure I never will; conversely, people who love the idea now might not like it any more in the future.<\/p>\n However, having children is a bit more serious than a simple matter of personal taste. A child is not a toy or a dress that you buy and just put away if it turns out you don\u2019t like it as much as you thought you would: It\u2019s a living human being whom was brought into the world because of someone else\u2019s intentions and\/or actions, and it\u2019ll need love and care for quite a while. For this very reason, I think you should have children only if you\u2019re pretty damn sure you really want to and are prepared to do all it takes to raise them. It\u2019s not an easy job, and if it turns out you hate it, you\u2019ll probably end up doing it wrong, messing up the child\u2019s life and your own in the process. This is true of women and men, though women definitely picked the shortest straw. I\u2019ll tell you why I think so in a moment.<\/p>\n Even if you think you are \u2018pretty damn sure\u2019 that you want children, you could still be wrong for a number of reasons that aren\u2019t necessarily your fault. If you do decide to have children and then realise you don\u2019t like it, you have good 18+ years ahead of you of bearing with the consequences of your wrong decision. The decision to not have children is, in a sense, safer, because it can easily be undone: Later on, you can change your mind and have children. If you already did make a child, changing your mind about it will not undo the child. However, not having children is only marginally safer, because as things stand you can postpone parenthood only so long before it becomes impossible or impractical (again, especially if you are a woman). The bottom line is that the current state of affairs imposes you a risky choice\u2014having or not having children\u2014that cannot easily (or at all) be undone.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" How rejuvenation can make motherhood (and more generally, parenthood) better. I\u2019m not really a children person. I know some people really are into having children and think that it\u2019s the most wonderful thing in life, but I\u2019m just not one of them. This is perfectly fine. Whether having children is a wonderful thing or not [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":418,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[269],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-35139","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-life-extension"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35139","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/418"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=35139"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35139\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":35238,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35139\/revisions\/35238"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35139"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=35139"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=35139"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}