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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I’m 50 and never was able to have kids. I looked younger than my mom friends for a long time, but menopause is the great equalizer. 
I’d adopt if I could do it all over again. The thought of old age without kids is just really sad.

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Take some consolation from the fact that old age *with* kids can be really sad, too. I know grandparents forced to raise grandkids because their kids are drug addicts or in prison, elders whose children never visit them or only to demand money, elders whose kids are hateful and abusive to them and even rob them blind.

Kids are a total crapshoot - you can parent well and still end up with a psychopath who sneaks in your room at night to shoot you in the head. (Actual case I handled as a prosecutor.) Or you could have a beloved special needs child whose future after you’re gone will be an unrelenting worry on your mind.

Not to mention even if you gave a perfectly healthy loving child, you’re inflicting on them the fate of growing old in a world on fire where quality of life will be steadily diminishing in the decades to come.[/quote]

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