Why have children?

[Curtis24]

But seriously, why is our drive to have children so powerful? Now, you may say its because children can be enjoyed for their own sake. That may be true for some, but clearly at least some human men are prone to promiscuity and want children without having to raise them. So the desire for children exists apart from wanting to raise children.

I hate to bring a Sci-fi book into this, since it makes me look like an uber-nerd (which I am ), but has anyone ever read the Dune sequels? Frank Herbert explores the idea that we may be able to somehow share the consciousness of our descendants after we are dead, continue experiencing life through them, etc. He sees this as having a biological basis, i.e. we actually perserve our consciousness and past memories in our DNA, and can once again become conscious, as long as our DNA lives on.

What do you all think?

[Wulfhere]

But seriously, why is our drive to have children so powerful? Now, you may say its because children can be enjoyed for their own sake. That may be true for some, but clearly at least some human men are prone to promiscuity want children without having to raise them. So the desire for children exists apart from wanting to raise children.

I hate to bring a Sci-fi book into this, since it makes me look like an uber-nerd (which I am ), but has anyone ever read the Dune sequels? Frank Herbert explores the idea that we may be able to somehow share the consciousness of our descendants after we are dead, continue experiencing life through them, etc.

What do you all think?

It's a biological urge. Any species that didn't have it would die out very quickly, and therefore be de-selected in evolutionary terms.

[Rosenrot]

I want to have kids cause it sems that a life without then would be incomplete. I don't want to get older and becoming lonely old lady, without a family and stuff.

[Adalwolf]

Simple answer: To further one's family tree and blood line. Typically people want to see their legacy live on. Unless you're Hermann Goering's grandchildren, who all sterilized themselves out of utter shame.

[alexandra]

to carry on my legacy and bring another life into the world out of love. to experience the joys and character-building struggles of raising children. to watch them grow up and hopefully blossom into better people than i was and am. that is literally half you. it's pretty amazing.

[Troll's Puzzle]

part of my script tells me to eat an' stuff so I persist in being.
If it hadn't been written like that then I would have died, or someone 'before' me in my line would have died and I wouldn't have happened, so scripts which didn't have 'hunger = seek food' don't get passed on.
Similarly, scripts which don't code for 'make sweet, sweet lurrrrve and have kidz' wouldn't have got passed on.
For men, they can fuck around and have many kids and they may survive whether the man sees to it or not, so the script which says 'men, fuck around' increases in frequency because it gets passed on more often.
It's not quite the same for wimminz (although not as opposite as might be suspected) because the wimminz is vunerable when pregnant, vunerable during childbirth (v high risk before modern medicine!) and vunerable if she has to look after the baby after going through all that. So the 'breed' script has more cautious coding in our (superior) species

my post is shitty. go read some biology especially sociobiology books,

[Wulfhere]

Simple answer: To further one's family tree and blood line. Typically people want to see their legacy live on. Unless you're Hermann Goering's grandchildren, who all sterilized themselves out of utter shame.

And Hitler's nephew's children, who have supposedly made a pact not to continue the bloodline (though have since denied it). And for those who don't know, Hitler's nephew was named William Patrick Hitler (born in Liverpool), but later changed his surname to Stuart-Houston after he moved to New York state. He died in 1987, but has three surviving sons, the eldest having the middle name of Adolf.

[Adalwolf]

And Hitler's nephew's children, who have supposedly made a pact not to continue the bloodline (though have since denied it). And for those who don't know, Hitler's nephew was named William Patrick Hitler (born in Liverpool), but later changed his surname to Stuart-Houston after he moved to New York state. He died in 1987, but has three surviving sons, the eldest having the middle name of Adolf.

I wonder what the Mossad thinks of all this...

[Wulfhere]

I wonder what the Mossad thinks of all this...

Not sure, but W.P. Hitler won a Purple Heart fighting for the Americans against Germany.

[Blossom]

Might sound selfish:

- Making love with your partner/husband without any...frontier and do not care about it, just doing it for love.
- Heritage and preserve your roots.
- Having someone to hold on difficult times you may get into.
- Another reason to show your partner how much love you feel, how secure you feel about the relationship/marriage, so you tranform all this love into a human being. Impressive, huh?
- Loving. If you'd be a sensitive one and you'd love to show your feelings..having kids would satisfy your needy feelings.
- Making kids its such a beautiful fact...having a kid, fruit of a love (past one/present one) its such a nice thing... IMO.

I will definetly have kids. Aye.