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Some men out there are capable of being good fathers; others are just interested in making your life harder and keeping you down for their own benefit. If he wants kids, be careful you're sure of his reasoning before agreeing to conceive with him. If you're a woman who wants kids, you must ensure to have children with the person and at the time most beneficial to YOU.
Manipulative:
- you are automatically tied to anyone you have biological children with and men know this and abuse it
- men can leave once it's too late to end the pregnancy and you'll be an involuntary single mother
- men can become useless or abusive once the child comes along and you'll actually have to kick them out yourself and become a voluntary single mother
- men know single mothers are stigmatized so will behave as badly as they can get away with because the mother won't easily risk social conseqeuences by throwing the father of her children out of the house
- children keep women busy, exhausted, and broke
- men know that simply providing the genetic material for the pregnancy to happen is just the top of his long slide into the easy social credibility of parenthood, while women can never do anything correctly before, during, or after pregnancy and will lose social credibility no matter what they do
- his family, if they are in his life, will be all over your pregnancy and have opinions and proprietary feelings about it and your parenting choices
- he can stigmatize what pregnancy does to your body and shame you for normal biological processes and/or leave you once your body inevitably changes due to having the children he wanted
Lazy/Cheap:
- why does he want to create children to spend time with when there are many other ways to do that other than birthing them and having them in your living space? (ie: playing with younger cousins, volunteering somewhere working with children, hanging out with friends and their children)
- it's easy to want something that risky and labor-intensive when it's not your body and health on the line
- does he have any experience with children or pregnancy? Or plan to learn? Or does he expect all of that to be a "you" thing
- why didn't he adopt? Why is he waiting for someone else to come along so he can be a parent? There are women who are single moms by choice and he is not required to impregnate someone in order to become a father.
- he could also pay a surrogate but chooses not to front his own money nor take on the burden of single parenthood but it's expected you take those risks by getting pregnant and hoping he stays and remains a good father and partner
- perhaps he doesn't care about any child that isn't biologically his or refuses to try to bond with children that aren't his
- wants "his money" to be for "him" and you "pay for the kids" and shames you for "wasting too much money" on things for the kids
Irresponsible/Careless:
- too many children already live in poverty, the foster system, or are homeless to consider making more while many desperately need loving homes
- unless his family personally has wealth, businesses, etc to pass down, you don't need a "legacy". What do you need them to carry on from your life? If it's just your name do us all a favor and please don't.
- the planet is overpopulated and this has already contributed to climate change. More people being born obviously adds to this burden on the environment.
- many areas of the planet are dangerous and have poor human rights protections and having children in any of these places will cause unnecessary suffering especially depending on the baby's gender
- children are expensive if you don't have the resources to raise them and despite having savings if something unexpected happens like them having a disability, accident, or illness it may take more resources than you have just to ensure they survive
- getting a spot in daycare is impossible these days as well as unaffordable, and you'll still have to save for a post secondary education while paying the exorbitant daycare costs
- post secondary education gets more expensive, more competitive, and less advantageous every year. As does the job market. Unless you have family-business related job security your kids will likely struggle in an AI-decimated future job market
Lots of good points. Whenever a man tells me he’s eager to have kids (or worse, “we’d make cute babies”) I get major ick. Most of the time the men who say this have no idea what child rearing entails, and they end up leaving it all to the woman.