Parenthood is like an anchor. To raise kids, it takes tons of time and money which makes parenthood a huge commitment. Time and money I could be spending on working towards essential needs like a house. Time and money I could be spending on my wife and I. A kid could hold me down much like an anchor does. That’s why I never plan on having children. Commitment, overpopulation issues, and stress are the three main factors in my decision.

Commitment is the most important reason in my decision to not have kids. Parents just look so held down when I see them in public. When I’m 30 years old, I don’t want to be like that, I want to still be able to think for myself, do what I want to do. If I became a father, especially in the early stages, I won’t be able to go out with my buddies every Friday night, but I’d have to help out with the child. I must dedicate time into raising a kid. I would want my kid to succeed in life, and success eats up more time than anything. I would also have to dedicate tons of money. All that bread I worked so hard for, and about eighty percent of it would go into my child. To raise a kid, it takes about the maximum amount of dedication and commitment; something I’m not sure I’ll ever be ready for.

The amount of stress a kid would put on me is another major con. There’s hundreds of things a parent has to worry about that I would have to deal with on a regular basis. One thing every parent strives for is raising successful children. I try to push them to do their best in school so they can grow up and get a good education. This is lots of hard work for both the child and the parent invoking stress on both of them. From waking the kid up in the morning to worrying about the child’s grades, it’s something I’d have to deal with on a daily basis as a parent. Another stress causer is the child’s health and safety. Tons of vaccinations must be done which costs money. Plus, there’s hundreds of other illnesses out there to worry about. When in public, if the kid is out of sight for just half a second, anxiety shoots through my veins. The amount of stress raising a kid puts on a person could have effects that last the rest of their lifetime.

The last thing about having a child is that I’ll be contributing to the serious overpopulation issues that Earth is facing today. From 1999 to 2011, the population of the world grew by one billion. Overpopulation causes depletion of natural resources, negatively affects the environment, causes a higher cost in living, and has many more negative effects. The main cause to all of this is lack of family planning. It’s as simple as the more kids you have, the more you are contributing to the issue. Now me having one or two children isn’t that big of an issue, but every human leaves a gigantic ecological footprint. I’m just saying me having a kid doesn’t help solve these awful overpopulation problems.

I don’t want any children. Having a kid would hold me back majorly, in other words parenthood is an anchor. It takes a horrendous amount of commitment to raise a child, something I don’t think I’ll ever be ready for. It’s about the most stressful thing that a man could go through. Not to mention, adding to the population is detrimental during these rough times of overpopulation. To sum it all up, a child is something I don’t think I’ll be ready for at any point during my lifetime. But for now, I’m just going to focus on the present and try not to worry about the future so much.