# Parents - how much did having children change your life?

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**Category:** In My Humble Opinion\
**Created:** [July 18, 2012, 9:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/parents-how-much-did-having-children-change-your-life/628661 "2012-07-18T21:13:55Z")\
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**Post date:** [July 19, 2012, 10:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/parents-how-much-did-having-children-change-your-life/628661/47 "2012-07-19T22:35:54Z")

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In the regard that I always expected to have kids, I knew that they would “change” my life dramatically, and that this change was “forever”, I would say the sense of “change” really hasn’t been all that strong. I have the kid and the life that I thought I would have when I thought about the future at age 8… 18… 28… so, really, little is different from my expectations. My wife and I always were our own best friends, so our social life didn’t change all that much when Sophia was born.

Caveat: Sophia was planned, there were no surprises (other than how beautiful she is), and she has been a funny, smart, wonderful little girl in exceptional health.

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