It’s just the way it’s done and the example set by society. So people do it to conform.
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Not to sound sappy, but having kids (3) did make me happy. It makes me happy every day just to see them running around happy and healthy and funny and cute. Which is not to say that sometimes I don’t flip out over how messy and self centered they can be. My husband makes me happy, too. Which also sounds sappy, but it’s true.
We had kids when we were in our late 30s, prior to which I had had a pretty stressful career in a very male dominated field, so I don’t really feel like I’m much of a conformist. In fact, most of my same-age friends had kids long before I did or not at all. So – some people have kids because they really want them, and they marry people because they really love them. I think there are a lot of those people, but for whatever reason they don’t get much press.
