The question is simple: does it weird you out when you hear about people you went to high school with having a kid? How about 2 or 3 children?
For me, when I hear who's having children, I usually shrug and am not really surprised. One girl from my class is 23 and has a third kid on the way. I'm guessing welfare scam, or really, really poor use of contraception. But again, given who it is, I'm not surprised, but I do find it a little trippy that people my age are becoming parents.
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My ex-girlfriend recently had a child with her current boyfriend. -That- was extremely unsettling to hear. See. Ugh.
And then one of my childhood friends recently got married. He's 21. She's 20. I can't identify with the desire.
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We'll say that this pertains to persons between ages 20 and 25 inclusive.The question is simple: does it weird you out when you hear about people you went to high school with having a kid? How about 2 or 3 children?
For me, when I hear who's having children, I usually shrug and am not really surprised. One girl from my class is 23 and has a third kid on the way. I'm guessing welfare scam, or really, really poor use of contraception. But again, given who it is, I'm not surprised, but I do find it a little trippy that people my age are becoming parents.
It was trippy at first when I got a myspace and started running into people from school, but now I'm sort of used to it.
"Oh shit, dude, that sucks. What are you gonna tell your parents?"
Yeah. I'll be a great parent someday. Pfft.
That being said, my roommate works with a 23 year old who is currently knocked up with her SIXTH kid!
Answer: no
I do contract work now for a company I used to be full-time with, and there are three other guys at that place my age. 'My age' being actually younger than I (20) am. All three of them are married, two of them both have two kids, and the third's wife is pregnant.
It's not something people hear about.
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The Blob stumbled drunkenly to the keyboard and typed:
I never understood the urge to breed.
Yeah, why follow the same mistakes your parents made.
But, yeah. "Be like your ancestors or not."
We're all DEVO.
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I'm guessing welfare scam, or really, really poor use of contraception.
One girl from my graduating class was bragging to my brother about all the welfare money she was getting for her 3 kids, She had one before she graduated and a couple in the few years after graduating. Scary thing was that she was the ugliest thing in the high school and someone was banging her? 
A year or so after she bragged about the welfare money and while she was pregnant with number four, Gov. Tommy Thompson and the Wisconsin state legislature passed the W2 program and restricted payments for a maximum of 3 children unless you actually start working to contribute something to society. I'm a bit fuzzy on the details of the reform package, but I cackled with glee thinking of her when the welfare reform went through.
Part of the reform was also to keep welfare fraud down, a number of people from Chicago also had P.O. Boxes in Milwaukee and were drawing welfare from both Illinois and Wisconsin (folks from Milwaukee area were getting P.O. Boxes in Chicago area to do the same) saving both states millions of dollars. Kaglaaz How'ler fucked around with this message on 05-10-2006 at 06:06 PM.
It still weirds me the fuck out to think about people I know getting knocked up/having kids. My ex-girlfriend got married and had a kid within a year of breaking up with me. Really odd feeling. Then again I was almost dumb enough to marry her(was planning to after college, so much for that, lol).
I do not want to have the huge responsibility of having a kid. No way man.
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Peanut butter ass Shaq Xyrra booooze lime pole over bench lick:
The very idea of breeding freaks me the hell out. Something about it just feels parasitical and wrong. *twitch*
While I have no particular urge to reproduce, I've never understood people who try to demonize reproduction by painting a fetus as a "parasite." The comparison is specious and pointless.
My cousin who is four years younger than me had a kid that she now dumps off on any willing babysitter, usually my grandma, at every given opportunity so she can continue living as if she were single.
That was kinda shocking to me, but after that I kinda take it in stride.
What upsets me is when EVERYBODY my age seems to have a kid, spouse, or live-in mate.
My cousin had a kid at the age of 16, and she can't even take care of herself. My grandmother has practically raised the child and he is the worst kid in my family.
Literally.
And he's only 3. BeauChan fucked around with this message on 05-10-2006 at 08:59 PM.
Though it always was sort of funny to have 17-year-olds nursing their children give me funny looks when I mentioned that I don't plan on having any, ever.
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Maradon! obviously shouldn't have said:
specious
Did somebody give him a word a day calendar?
Almost put me off my lunch, but then I remembered that was the same time some kid started singing the Magic School Bus theme during the footage of the urethra. I had a good laugh on my way home and enjoyed my bacon ultimate.
I guess you might call it a symbiotic relationship... but that means it would have to have benefits for both parties. As the fetus feeds off of the mother with little to no positive effect on the mother, it cannot exactly be symbiotic. (Unless you count the hopped up immune system.)
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Its crazy. It also makes me feel a little better about myself.
If I heard someone I went to school with was first having children now, I would think it's weird only because I knew that person at an age when s/he was the exact opposite of a parental figure.
Hearing that the same someone started having children years ago would blow my mind, however.
Pvednes fucked around with this message on 05-11-2006 at 02:14 AM.
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Not really. One of my friends is nineteen, and she has six children. After that, all the weird in anyone else having kids just drops clean away.
Wait, WHAT? 9x6 = 54 = OVER A FIFTH OF HER FUCKING LIFE SPENT PREGNANT 
It's not something people hear about.
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Sean said this about your mom:
Wait, WHAT? 9x6 = 54 = OVER A FIFTH OF HER FUCKING LIFE SPENT PREGNANT
She's had a few miscarriages as well...so that's an underestimate.
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Everyone wondered WTF when Pvednes wrote:
She's had a few miscarriages as well...so that's an underestimate.
Please tell me some are twins.
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Hay guys what's going on in this Sakkra?
Please tell me some are twins.
She's pretty much been pregnant since puberty set in.
The fact that she's still managed to get to university is downright amazing. Pvednes fucked around with this message on 05-11-2006 at 03:33 AM.
quote:So she started having kids when she was 13 and kept having another every year? WTF? O_o
How.... Pvednes.... uughhhhhh:
Not really. One of my friends is nineteen, and she has six children. After that, all the weird in anyone else having kids just drops clean away.
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So quoth Pvednes:
Not really. One of my friends is nineteen, and she has six children. After that, all the weird in anyone else having kids just drops clean away.
Should spend sometime around a prominently Hassidic Jewish community, I remember pulling a checks from a bunch of them and looking at the age on their Diver licenses, most were like 20 and had a whole mob of kids and one in the oven.
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One of my friends got married and had a kid. His wife is a bitch too. Barely even friends anymore because if I go to hang out with him, his wife bitches at me until I leave. If he goes anywhere else, she calls him 5 minutes after he gets there telling him to come home. Fuck getting married and having kids in your 20's.
I'm 24. My wife is 24. We have kids. She and my friends get along great. My kids and my friends get along great. Your friend just married a bitch.
-H
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Nicole said this about your mom:
Not so much, no. I got used to seeing people my age with kids in high school.
Same here, pretty much. Except that I started seeing some friends getting pregnant in middle school.
THAT weirded me out.
Willias fucked around with this message on 05-11-2006 at 11:30 AM.
Edit: Fuck the word "weird" and it's anti-"i before e except after c" regime.
There's a girl here at work who is 19 and due in July. She's extremely immature and has no idea what to do with her kid once he's here.
As for people I know.. only couple I know from high school had a baby right afterward. Nobody else seems to be married yet. But it was practically a right of passage at my ex-husband's school to get knocked up shortly after graduation. All of his friends had children within a year of graduating and soon came marriage (and divorce/remarriage). It was a big joke when his baby bro graduated when he'd knock some girl up because his three closest friends were all expecting. Oy.
