I've known since as long back as I can remember and my parents have told me that I always said i'm never having kids. I'm 22 now and have never wavered on this. My only caveat: if i'm REALLY REALLY wealthy at some point, then yes i will because i will be able to give them proper education a good chance at happiness.

Yep I definitely want kids...

When I grow old I don't want to be lonely. Also you sort of want to leave something in this world when you go.

Ideally I'd like to have about 4 kids but that's only if finances permit.

To late. Already have 2 girls. The S.O. wants to have another one, but I'm not so sure. A 3 (almost 4) year old and a 1.5 year old is hard enough to keep up with :)

I love all 3 of my girls tho (kids + S.O.).

I've always said that I don't want to go through childbirth. Growing up, I used to say that Id adopt.

Now, at 25, I know that I don't want kids at all. I like most kids, most babies. But I could not handle being a mother. Frankly, Im scared to death that I'd become one of those people who drowns their kids. I don't deal well when babies cry at all.

So no kids for me.

Not anymore. Anybody want mine? (17, 14, 11) They're hardly used and get straight A's in school. :)

At least not right now. I am schizoaffective and still getting on a stable set of meds, and we live paycheck to paycheck.. Maybe in the future me and Shyla will agree on kids, who knows.

if i can afford to raise them properly (both fiscally and time-wise), maybe I will, but my limit's two. I won't even think about it [more] until I found a girl I'd want to have kids with.

I think I could handle children if they came out 18 years old (birth canal size problems nonwithstanding). I can't stand children screaming. It seems like an epidemic. Kids nowadays just scream all the time. When they are happy, scared, sad ... anytime is a good time for a three year old to open their maw and let out a high-pitched wail. I don't remember myself or my sister doing that.

i have video footage of me running around and screaming.

i'd either want two or none. but i'm not even thinking about that right now. i think i'd be an awkward mother anyway :P

Yeah, I really do. The guy that lives next door was teaching his son to ride a bike w/o training wheels today... I just watched in awe. It was beautiful.

I do, though, want to wait untill I can properly support them finacially.

/ How's that for bringing a thread back from the dead?

I most certainly do want kids. However, I don’t want any until I’m financially very secure and I can’t see that being the case for at least 8 to 10 years, particularly if I head in the post-grad direction. I guess I just want to be a good provider.

I’d like a daughter and a son, or two daughters and for them to be very close in succession. That is, a year or two apart.

Never. Can't see the point of the little bastards; I'm really far too selfish to have kids.

I would never do that to somebody i didnt know, you know what i mean? Would YOU choose to be born into this country right now? i know i sure as hell wouldnt.

YES!!! My wife and I have been trying now for over six years. We're kind of stuck now until we can come up with $15k though.

I've always wanted kids. I'm 27 and have 4 boys. They're loads of fun! I'm glad I didn't wait very long, because now I can enjoy parenthood while I have the energy to keep up with them.

I think so, eventually. Definitely not anytime soon.

Yep, it appears I do based upon my track record. Three girls, ages 14, 12 and 9.

And, an "oops" on the way, due in July

i've always wanted kids, but a few years ago discovered i may have trouble getting pregnant. now, i'm not so sure. it took a long time to come to terms with the idea that i won't have children (hell, i still struggle with it some days). i would definitely need help from a dr--which means a lot of expense. plus, i am at an increased risk for miscarriage and i'm not sure how well i'd handle something like that. but mostly, i just don't think i could emotionally handle getting my hopes up trying to get pregnant and not succeeding (or worse, miscarrying).

adoption is an option, but i've hit a point in my life where i just don't have much urge to get married (and when it hits it tends to be very short-lived). i don't think it would be fair to a child to not provide two parents.

the bf wants kids but he says he wants me more...i feel a little guilty about that but he's a big boy and can make that sort of decision for himself. besides, at the moment finances aren't where i'd want them to be for kids anyway.

I have never had the least bit of desire to have children. It seems that when the paternal instincts and longings were being passed out, I must have been in the line for beer or something. Don't get me wrong, there's absolutely nothing wrong with having kids, but people these days shoot them out like it's some sort of sport. I refer to today's CNN item:

http://www.cnn.com/2005/LAW/01/05/ch....ap/index.html

If I were going to do it (God forbid) I would ensure that I was financially stable, emotionally mature and mentally and physically able to raise them correctly before my partner and I even consider it. Very few people do that anymore, and at the risk of being flamed crispy, I will go on record as saying that parenthood is a crapshoot at best.