Joined: 7 Dec 2005 Age: 60 Gender: Female Posts: 3,307 Location: Not here
20 Feb 2006, 6:48 pm
After having 2 kids I had my tubes tied recently, after many years of having to worry about birth control. It is very nice (understatement) to not have to ever worry about being pregnant ever again, and also nice not to have to use birth control.
Joined: 4 Mar 2005 Gender: Male Posts: 1,278 Location: Rochester Minnesota
20 Feb 2006, 7:23 pm
I would like to have at least one or 2 children, then intend to have a vasectomy. 2 would be my limit however.
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Rochester Minnesota
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Fred Tate Little Man Tate
Joined: 17 Dec 2005 Gender: Male Posts: 13,157 Location: Omnipresent
20 Feb 2006, 7:42 pm
Ummm..... if at all possible I would prefer breeding. Perhaps social darwinism has gotten to me but I think that it is a mark of success for an organism to breed and have healthy offspring and I hope to do so at one point in my life. Perhaps I will never be the best father but I realize that I can go far with daily beatings and stuff of that nature.
Joined: 1 Dec 2005 Gender: Female Posts: 356 Location: England
23 Feb 2006, 7:07 am
FragileX, I've heard that those with AS and those on the autisim spectrum can carry this and pass it on to their children, would this be a good enough reason to be steralized?
My husband got his tubes cut several years ago and it was great not to have to worry about any more children coming. Him being severly AS most of the child rearing was left up to me, so two was nice. But later I was sad because we couldn't have anymore children. But it worked out for the best.
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Joined: 4 Jul 2004 Age: 69 Gender: Male Posts: 572 Location: seacoast New Hampshire
23 Feb 2006, 12:04 pm
After my wife and I decided that 1 child was enough. I got a vasectomy! Advantages, cheaper, quicker recovery time, less invasive surgery than for my wife, less post surgical risks for a man, no more birth control or condoms. It takes the worry out of being "close".
Peace
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Joined: 24 Oct 2005 Age: 59 Gender: Male Posts: 62
23 Feb 2006, 12:22 pm
I would think for most AS men sterilization would just be a waste of money. Most of us have little chance of having sex much less getting a woman pregnant.