[ SECRET POST #4042 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #4042 ⌋

Warning: Some secrets are NOT worksafe and may contain SPOILERS.

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02.
[Louisa May Alcott, Eight Cousins]


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03.
[Jojo's Bizarre Adventure]


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04.
[Mickey Rourke (and Kim Basinger even though the secret's not about her)]


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05.
[Tommy Wiseau and Greg Sestero]


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06.
[Welcome to the Ballroom]


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07.
[Crazy Ex Girlfriend]











Notes:

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Secrets Not Posted: [ 0 - broken links ], [ 0 - not!secrets ], [ 0 - not!fandom ], [ 0 - too big ], [ 0 - repeat ].
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Comments

[(Anonymous)]

I feel like money and life experience is even stronger than "biological clock". Who would want to bring a new life into such a shitty, overpopulated world if they can barely afford to take care of themselves? Accidents aside, people make the decision too lightly far too often.

[(Anonymous)]

In all fairness, if one waited until they were completely financially stable and had the time and money to have kids... there's a good chance they'd already be too old to have them, at least biologically.

Having kids is a big decision and shouldn't be taken lightly, but it's not a bad thing to want or have kids responsibly. Anyway, there's a difference between having a kid at 19 when you work part time at a gas station, and at 32 when you still struggle to make ends meet at work but at least have a career and a plan for the future.

[(Anonymous)]

I know a guy who is financially stable. Had a great job, house, marriage. Lost it all a year after finally having a kid. The pressure of having a kid made him snap. His wife left him and now he's being shuffled back and forth between a mental hospital and a homeless shelter. Having money is only one small aspect of being able to raise kids. Having a kids seems to be pretty terrible in general (lots of people reporting depression or marriage strain, or becoming abusive or a list of other things) no matter how put together your life is.

[(Anonymous)]

Okay? That sucks, but that example really isn't the norm. My sister and her husband just had kids in their late twenties. They struggle to make ends meet and with babies, there are lots of sleepless nights, but they are doing great and happier than ever. Kids are a lot of responsibility, but most people don't completely snap from the pressure of it.

[(Anonymous)]

That's a pretty extreme example.

[(Anonymous)]

Yep. I'm tired of collectively ignoring the fact that having biological kids is objectively a bad selfish decision most of the time in our current world. I feel sorry for the people I know who absolutely intellectually knew that but responded to their biological clocks and now have daily anxiety attacks about how the world has about a 25% chance of not going down the shitter before they're even dead.

[(Anonymous)]

It is absolutely NOT. For one, wtf. For another, have a look at countries that suddenly had a drop in birth rate and now have massively aging populations and all the societal problems that go with that. Ask, say, Japan how that's working out for them.

[(Anonymous)]

They didn't have a drop in birth rate shortly before a probable environmental collapse. We could, technically, take care of the huge population on this planet just fine, but the way things are going that's just not gonna happen unless there's a goddamn massive coup.

[(Anonymous)]

You obviously weren't alive during the Cold War, when everyone really did think the earth was going to explode at any given second. Thank fuck people didn't stop having babies despite that.

[(Anonymous)]

Maybe if Japan wants more kids they could stop overworking people and enforcing rigid gender roles that make it harder for men and women to date. And to not expect women to give up their careers to have kids.