Will your family line die off and disappear forever?

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I don't even like to think about what one of my spawn would turn out like.. You know when a thought's so horrible that you physically feel it? Either way the chances of me even having sex again are too slim I don't bother thinking about it.

I don't want kids.
The thought of enslaving myself to a screaming sh*t machine for two years horrifies me. (I hate babies)
Then there's the huge expense of kids, they keep growing and needing new clothes every few months.
And even when they stop physically growing and become young adults, they start requiring more expensive things.
On top of that factor in the mother's curse ("I hope you have a kid just like you")
I really don't feel like dealing with a smart mouthed trouble maker coming home all wasted when he's 14.

NOPE no kids for me.

I only have one sister and she doesn't have any either, and she's almost 50, so that ship has sailed for her.

The closest thing to the family bloodline getting passed on is my three 1st cousins who all have kids.
But I don't know if cousins really count, that's a different branch of the family tree.

So would all the aspie males who dont want kids, feel ethical about donating sperm?

Jason

In India you are not acceptable to society if you dont have kids
they ignore you, mock you, make fun of you if you are not part of herd mentality.
But generally speaking i feel my mom and dad's side generation is over since most of them have girls
they dont carry forward family name.
whereas my husbands side things are doing well many of them have a male heir.

but i would be scared of living old age alone without any kids and family to have
if i was financially more well off then i would have adopted one kid though i have one of my own

I definitely want to have kids someday. I think I could run a family, if my partner would be a very supportive person to always be at my side. The only time when I have a problem with things is when I feel lonely.

I've never really felt capable of looking after kids. They're very messy and loud and chaotic and tiring and I think I'd melt down after about 3 days, even if I loved them very much.

My parents have never said anything about wanted grandchildren but I do get the feeling they're a bit disappointed. But at the end of the day it's not up to them. Maybe if I found someone supportive enough as a partner I could do it, but I don't really think it's a fair thing to ask for. By all accounts parenting is hard enough, without carrying someone else through it too.

I am a leaf on my family tree. However, I have a brother with 2 kids that are likely his.

Well, ALL lines are destined to die with the human race.

My family isn't going to die anytime soon, My family breeds like rabbits.

I like the topic!

Considering I am asexual, it'll be hard to predict if I will have children.

On the other hand, my older sister has 4 children - which is a high number these days.

Some of her children look like me - so perhaps genes will be passed through her.

However, I still want to pass on my genes via sperm bank!

I hope they will accept my OCD/ADHD/Apsie ways! These conditions offer "gifts" too genetically speaking.

Heck, no. My dad was the second youngest of 15 and his dad was one of 15. Most of my dad's siblings have had children. Some of them have had children, too, and there's even a few of those children who have children of their own. My family tree is more like a family forest.

Seems my particular twig of the family tree will be dying off. I'm not particularly interested in reproducing and neither is my younger brother from the looks of things. At least I don't have to feel guilty about bringing any more people into this increasingly sh***y world. I don't particularly want to have children if chances are they will grow up to be as depressed as I am.

On my moms side, no. She just had a daughter, and her sister has 2 kids as well. On my dads side, maybe. My dad doesnt have any other kids, and his sister has none. I would like to have kids someday, but who knows if that would work out...

I have more than 50 cousins, and some of them already have around five kids each. My sister is pregnant with her first. So no, don't see my family line dying anytime soon I really doubt my sister's kids will have cousins though...

Well, my family name is inherited from my step great-great-grandfather (my great-great-grandmother was pregnant when he married her), hence my great-grandfather, Al Holbrook, was the first one of that bloodline with that name. My grandfather was his only son (I have a mad great Aunt, but she's estranged from the family), and my father was his only son (one son, two daughters - both Aunts are married with kids, Autism is evident in my cousins). So, the only ones who can pass on the family name are me and my brother, and he's certainly intending to get married sometime soon; it'll probably help that fertility runs in his girlfriends family. As for me, hopefully I will as well, but we shall just have to wait and see. On

On my mothers side, her sister has no children, but her brother has two. My grandfather was an only child, and my grandmother has one brother, who's got two children; I know his daughter has a son and a daughter (I've met them), but I don't know if his son does.

So, the Holbrook lineage isn't likely to die out anytime soon, and the cadet branches are going okay. On my mothers side, the Tadgell line seems to be doing okay, but I'm not sure about the Owen line.