[ SECRET POST #2583 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #2583 ⌋

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Comments

[(Anonymous)]

In my case, I wasted my 20s and early 30s getting a degree I'll never use in a field I ended up hating. I wasn't even thinking about kids back then. If you'd asked me, I would have sworn I never wanted children. Now I do. And now it's too late. :(

I just wish I could find a way to stop regretting.

[(Anonymous)]

Do you want them because you can't have them? I'm not being snide, it's just that I've been in the same situation of not wanting kids (and I still don't, and it's about too late for me to have them anyway). So what changed?

Regrets are useless, it doesn't change anything, but if you really DO want children, why not consider adoption? You can still raise a child and be a parent if that's what you really want.

[(Anonymous)]

Adoption is really much, much harder than having a bio child.

[ariakas]

It's also more expensive. Where I live adoption costs $30-50K and has stringent regulations on how much money you can make, how you live, how old you are, and what kind of relationship you're in. IVF costs $5K a pop, and with a success rate of 20-30% per cycle for women 40+ is by faaaaaaaaaar the more financially feasible option for most women. They even package three cycles at a discount (three cycles will get the vast majority of women pregnant) of $10K. And in some countries, IVF is even free for women under 43.

So yeah. It's insane that that's the way it is, but that's the way is. Not to mention that the adoption industry now turns such a profit that people have started kidnapping young children who very much do have parents in poor countries and effectively selling them to the West.

[(Anonymous)]

Ugh, that's awful! You don't have to pay to adopt a child here. You don't even necessarily need to hire a lawyer. You apply, do an interview and wait to be called. Fertility treatments are expensive here, though.