# Poll: Is raising pets an acceptable alternative to raising kids? (take two)

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**Category:** In My Humble Opinion\
**Created:** [January 17, 2022, 8:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/poll-is-raising-pets-an-acceptable-alternative-to-raising-kids-take-two/957949 "2022-01-17T20:47:55Z")\
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> [@Poll: Is raising pets an acceptable alternative to raising kids?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/poll-is-raising-pets-an-acceptable-alternative-to-raising-kids/957938/1):
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> Do you think raising pets is an acceptable alternative to raising kids, or to raising more kids, for the purpose of satisfying the need to nurture?

Depends on what you’re talking about.

I don’t think there’s anybody who wants to have kids who thinks that having pets instead would be “just as good.”

But I think there are plenty of people whose pets satisfy whatever “need to nurture” they have, so that they feel they do not need to have kids.

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