# Not having children and your outlook on life **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [October 5, 2010, 1:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/not-having-children-and-your-outlook-on-life/556075 "2010-10-05T01:54:39Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 337
**Author:** ![Susanann](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/7ab992/32.png) [@Susanann](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Susanann)\ **Post date:** [October 15, 2010, 2:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/not-having-children-and-your-outlook-on-life/556075/337 "2010-10-15T14:41:47Z")
> [@msmith537](#): > > > [@Susanann](#): > > > > It sounds kinda a meaningless, pointless, lonely, directionless, empty life, and who the heck is going to get all your money and family heirlooms when a childless person dies? What was the point of having accumulated a fortune if no kids or grandkids are going to get it? > > I can not imagine how pointless EVERYthing would seem. > > So the reason I should have kids is so someone can keep my useless crap when I’m dead? > > Life is only as meaningless, pointless, lonely, directionless, and empty as you make it. I know plenty of childless people who have fulfilling and interesting careers, lots of friends and tons of activities and interests. In many ways, their lives seem a lot more fullfilling than many married and child-full people who seem to have no life outside of raising their children. Unless you are independently wealthy, raising kids is a time consuming and expensive process. I still stand by my original statement that for most people life is pointless without kids. On the other hand, I dont mean to imply that most people “\*should \*” have kids. Lots, if not most, parents are so poor or so incompetent or so dishonest or so selfish or so lazy or so dumb that I dont think they should have had kids. In other words, its “ok” for your life to be pointless and meaningless, esp if you dont know what you are doing. --- _[View the full topic](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/not-having-children-and-your-outlook-on-life/556075)._