You can't because it's BS and societal pressure. Most conservatives just can't deal with it than many people actually can be happy and have purpose without kids.
Some people I know personally and a few others said...if they had to do it over they would not bother with kids ...you have to take care of the from the cradle to the middle age ...there pathetic..living at home for ever ...there as Ricky Gervais once commented....there scroungers...when we were young ..we left the house after high school...we were on our own...loved it...I'm sure rogen is filthy rich...kids are not hurting for anything...rogen is into money ..the more the better..tired of his Bro show...boring as hell
Weird commentary, I am 55 and never wanted kids and never had kids and that has been one of the best decisions I have ever made in my life by far. I was laid off recently and I’m like cool now I have free time to do stuff. People with kids were all stressed about having to find another job quickly. I guess to each his own but i treasure my alone time and am somewhat introverted so for me peaceful alone time is bliss and having all the drama and stress that comes with having a family would be a total nightmare. I would say though if you really want to have a family and have a ton of money then go for it, but if you have doubts, think long and hard about it don’t make the decision lightly.
I just read a story where a woman left her 18 month year old home by itself so she can go on vacation and the baby suffered an awful death. I guess having a child doesn’t make everyone a better / different person 🫤😊
Facts I'm the same way we on the same page having kids is not that good especially when you don't don't what type of kids your gonna get you don't know what's coming out think about it
I know a few who don’t have kids or even married. I have noticed they usually are very positive people very chatty and usually have a really expensive car ha ha
Many of the childless people from past generations were childless because of infertility unlike today's child free people who are childless voluntarily. So people who are child free voluntarily would be far less sad about their childlessness .
Looks like to me I watched a video of two fathers hardly trying to convince themselves that they're happy to have kids. Many old people who never had kids are very happy with their choice and don't regret it. Besides having kids doesn't prevent you from getting old alone, otherwise there wouldn't be so much people in retirement homes. So no having kids is not the greatest source of happiness, and not everybody has the same of definition of happiness.
Good point I am 55 and found my friends without kids are generally happier and better adjusted then ones with kids who never really time for anything as they are always trying to work more and stressed out.
There was no advice in this clip. Just shaming and fear mongering to have kids. Some people, in fact a LOT of people, just don’t want kids. And most of them don’t regret it. As for the “adrift” thing, well that can happen to anyone regardless if they have kids or not.
Two of my siblings have chosen to be child free and have no regrets. They are married with spouses who also didn't want children. Twenty years later they do not regret their decision at all.
I'm 60 and know many old happy people who never had kids. JRE never checks his "stats" which are extremely biased. Most single adults over 60 without kids are happy. Its the divorced (55%) that have adult children who they never see or hear from that are miserable.
@@JREGreatestHits the divorce stats say otherwise. 50% end in divorce, 70% of divorces initiated by women (which increases to 90% when they are college educated, 97% of alimony is given to women. Don’t like those odds. Those are facts by the way, not my feelings.
@@sp-yj5wr those who have kids and are still together, you ask them observe them they are infinitely more happy and fulfilled than childless people especially single childless people, so there you go, it's a human thing, it feels good to have people around who who love and care for you, family above all
@@sp-yj5wr and sure those childless people especially single childless people are "happy" so they say. You can't beat a good family mom dad still together with kids, the love mutual love between parents and kids, it's such a beautiful emotion
My ex-girlfriend broke out relation soon as she learned I avoid childbirth. I was lucky to have more time finding other women who also avoid childbirth.
The purposeless existence happens when people retire too. I've met father's who are adrift. Married men who are adrift. When people don't fit into societal norms they're 'adrift'
This. Most goals in life are just social ideas embedded so most of us don't have to think too much. When those fall away, whatever they are, you are back to pondering the point of it all. What shall I do with my time? Have a kid. Sorted. Your parents know you'll be sorted and occupied for 20+ years but it doesn't answer those niggling questions. It just delays them.
Why do people think that their children will surely be there for them when they are old? Children then have their own lifes. Maybe they will live in another country or just in general far away and don't have time to visit you all the time. Maybe they want to spend their time wirh more fun things than to always be with their elderly parents. Also many children and parents don't even get along. I know my parents want me to live my life for me and they would never tell me that I should spend time with them when they're old or blame me for not having so mich time for them. Isn't it a better idea to try to form long lasting meaningful relationships with friends to emsure you have people around when you are older? I just don't get this argument. For me it sounds like some people have kids out of fear of being alone later on in life amd then when they really do end up alone even though they have kids at leadt they have the kids to blame them for that...
One of my uncles when I was a kid gave my dad a bunch of crap about "oh I'm a free man, I can go and do anything I want" and "im not tied down to a child. Im 25 now and at dinner last week he was talking to my dad about how he wishes he did a lot more in his youth and how living where he does is so lonely and purposeless. I used to be envious of him for his free thinking, but now I look at him as a lonely soul without anyone to help. He also has diabetes which he has to get kidney dialysis for and he has to drive to it himself everytime.
So you can’t help him? You talk about him being lonely with no one to help and he was a man you once looked up to and is family and you won’t help? 😂 He sounds like he wouldn’t be better off with kids if they were like you anyway.
Eh. Uncle Sam decided he was ok with me never having kids before i ws ever born when he exposed my dad to agent orange in vietnam. So if anybody ever has an issue with my refusal to breed another helmet kid into the world, take it up with the pentagon. 😂
Like the guy in the comment below said: oversimplification. Older age will bring challenges to all of us, if we are lucky to live that long, children or not. But that still doesn't mean that men who chose not to be fathers haven't made right decision. Reasons for that are often more deep than it appears on the surface. It seems to me that this guy is projecting his own fears of loneliness and failed life at least a bit.
Of course it would be nice to have a loving family around you when you get old, but the problem today is the risk of the divorce is too high and when you get divorced you lose everything, including your kids. That’s makes kids not worth it today. Better to be alone than to be divorced and broke.
I always wanted to be a father and to have my own kid. To experience that love that only your kid or kids can give you and that love that you can only have for your child. Ill be 40 this year. Im single with no kids and gay. I never wanted to be gay or childless. I never could bring myself to be with a woman anf VERY FEW MEN for that matter as accepting my sexuality is almost as difficult now at 39 as it was at 14. My sexuality, my singleness, and my childlessness are nearly impossible for me to talk about with anyone except with 2 very close friends. All of this had been a lifelong wrestling. It has definitely caused a great deal of stress, depression, fear and anxiety and feelings of isolation from my family friends and "community. I deal with these feeling on an almost daily basis. A word of advice for people who know and love childless people: be careful how you approach that situation in conversation and be very discerning about if you even should at all. The hardest thing for me to hear people ask me are questions like Do you have kids? When are you going to have kids? Its like a knife in my heart. And if anyone tells you they don't have kids and you dont wanna twist the blade around and destroy them in that moment for god sake dont follow up with. How old are you? What are you waiting for? Most people wont tell you how bad that hurts especially men because there is alot of shame associated with all of those feelings for some of us.
Some people just don't wont to be in relationships. society It no good I mean how would like it if your gf or wife it over there flirty with another dude then be called jealous and you could nothing about it there no respect in relationships just shady people
@@arealious25 you can adopt even after marriage. My fiance and I both want to do that. Having biological kids when 10,000 kids starve daily is incredibly selfish
TF is in ur 60s and alone??????? Talk sense please. You're saying if you had kids you'll be with them.. guaranteed?? What's wrong with this podcast seriously??
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You can't because it's BS and societal pressure. Most conservatives just can't deal with it than many people actually can be happy and have purpose without kids.
I know plenty of elderly people without kids and none of them are ummm "adrift" lol....
I agree ...
Some people I know personally and a few others said...if they had to do it over they would not bother with kids ...you have to take care of the from the cradle to the middle age ...there pathetic..living at home for ever ...there as Ricky Gervais once commented....there scroungers...when we were young ..we left the house after high school...we were on our own...loved it...I'm sure rogen is filthy rich...kids are not hurting for anything...rogen is into money ..the more the better..tired of his Bro show...boring as hell
@@steevodrums4749They say that now but once they get old they’ll be glad that they bothered to have them..
Having kids is not for everyone it’s a life changing choice that should be considered not just done.
Exactly
I must disagree. Worst decision I ever mad along with getting married.
What happened?
Weird commentary, I am 55 and never wanted kids and never had kids and that has been one of the best decisions I have ever made in my life by far. I was laid off recently and I’m like cool now I have free time to do stuff. People with kids were all stressed about having to find another job quickly.
I guess to each his own but i treasure my alone time and am somewhat introverted so for me peaceful alone time is bliss and having all the drama and stress that comes with having a family would be a total nightmare.
I would say though if you really want to have a family and have a ton of money then go for it, but if you have doubts, think long and hard about it don’t make the decision lightly.
Your honesty is appreciated
I just read a story where a woman left her 18 month year old home by itself so she can go on vacation and the baby suffered an awful death.
I guess having a child doesn’t make everyone a better / different person 🫤😊
Dang...18 month year old...thats crazy...
Regret is something very vague to quantify....for example there might be people who are married and have kids and regret having done both...
I know that guy , feel sorry for him every day.
That's literally 80% of people today😅
So true
Better to regret not having kids than regretting having kids
Still not gonna have them + you can't force me
Nobody wants to have your kids bud
Yes you and me on the same page
Facts I'm the same way we on the same page having kids is not that good especially when you don't don't what type of kids your gonna get you don't know what's coming out think about it
@@Chud-mb7gl you can’t even get a girlfriend, kids aren’t even on your agenda
I know a few who don’t have kids or even married. I have noticed they usually are very positive people very chatty and usually have a really expensive car ha ha
"You become a different person when you become a mother or father." Really? I would say SOME do. I know a lot of people who are dead beat parents.
You don’t bring children into this mess shit show of a planet just so you can have purpose or someone to take care of you when old. That is all
Many of the childless people from past generations were childless because of infertility unlike today's child free people who are childless voluntarily. So people who are child free voluntarily would be far less sad about their childlessness .
You can be married and be alone. Ditto on kids
Looks like to me I watched a video of two fathers hardly trying to convince themselves that they're happy to have kids.
Many old people who never had kids are very happy with their choice and don't regret it. Besides having kids doesn't prevent you from getting old alone, otherwise there wouldn't be so much people in retirement homes.
So no having kids is not the greatest source of happiness, and not everybody has the same of definition of happiness.
Good point I am 55 and found my friends without kids are generally happier and better adjusted then ones with kids who never really time for anything as they are always trying to work more and stressed out.
There was no advice in this clip. Just shaming and fear mongering to have kids.
Some people, in fact a LOT of people, just don’t want kids. And most of them don’t regret it.
As for the “adrift” thing, well that can happen to anyone regardless if they have kids or not.
Are you old enough to know that you won’t regret not having kids? Probably not.
@@rorzag Was this a legit question or a sad attempt at trolling?
@@CactusCowboyDan it was an attempt at making you impregnate a woman. I failed miserably🤦♂️
@@rorzag So trolling it is then. Thanks for clarifying.
@@CactusCowboyDan I touched a sore spot. Thanks for the useless info..
Two of my siblings have chosen to be child free and have no regrets. They are married with spouses who also didn't want children. Twenty years later they do not regret their decision at all.
Would rather be alone and purposeless than be divorced and broke.
I think there's probably a 3rd option in there somewhere, or at least a different lens to view it through lol.
I'm 60 and know many old happy people who never had kids. JRE never checks his "stats" which are extremely biased. Most single adults over 60 without kids are happy. Its the divorced (55%) that have adult children who they never see or hear from that are miserable.
@@JREGreatestHits the divorce stats say otherwise. 50% end in divorce, 70% of divorces initiated by women (which increases to 90% when they are college educated, 97% of alimony is given to women.
Don’t like those odds. Those are facts by the way, not my feelings.
@@sp-yj5wr those who have kids and are still together, you ask them observe them they are infinitely more happy and fulfilled than childless people especially single childless people, so there you go, it's a human thing, it feels good to have people around who who love and care for you, family above all
@@sp-yj5wr and sure those childless people especially single childless people are "happy" so they say. You can't beat a good family mom dad still together with kids, the love mutual love between parents and kids, it's such a beautiful emotion
Or just say fuck everyone and there opionion and go be happy
My ex-girlfriend broke out relation soon as she learned I avoid childbirth. I was lucky to have more time finding other women who also avoid childbirth.
Why would anyone bring innocent children into this horrible world?!!
Regrets? ...No thanks. Kids are not for everyone.
The purposeless existence happens when people retire too. I've met father's who are adrift. Married men who are adrift. When people don't fit into societal norms they're 'adrift'
This.
Most goals in life are just social ideas embedded so most of us don't have to think too much. When those fall away, whatever they are, you are back to pondering the point of it all.
What shall I do with my time? Have a kid. Sorted. Your parents know you'll be sorted and occupied for 20+ years but it doesn't answer those niggling questions. It just delays them.
Im 60 and im STILL on the fence about having kids.
Kids are for the rich.
I’m taking the chance.
What about the men who are in terrible relationships, or the men who are divorced and stuck paying child support to kids he cant even see.
Exactly. That's why i love to watch Coach Greg Adams. He keeps it real
Why do people think that their children will surely be there for them when they are old? Children then have their own lifes. Maybe they will live in another country or just in general far away and don't have time to visit you all the time. Maybe they want to spend their time wirh more fun things than to always be with their elderly parents.
Also many children and parents don't even get along.
I know my parents want me to live my life for me and they would never tell me that I should spend time with them when they're old or blame me for not having so mich time for them.
Isn't it a better idea to try to form long lasting meaningful relationships with friends to emsure you have people around when you are older? I just don't get this argument. For me it sounds like some people have kids out of fear of being alone later on in life amd then when they really do end up alone even though they have kids at leadt they have the kids to blame them for that...
I know lots of childfree men and women in their 50s and older, some of them single, all of them are perfectly happy without having kids.
Regret is better than scarface.
No kids age 31 years old I hate responsibility.
One of my uncles when I was a kid gave my dad a bunch of crap about "oh I'm a free man, I can go and do anything I want" and "im not tied down to a child. Im 25 now and at dinner last week he was talking to my dad about how he wishes he did a lot more in his youth and how living where he does is so lonely and purposeless. I used to be envious of him for his free thinking, but now I look at him as a lonely soul without anyone to help. He also has diabetes which he has to get kidney dialysis for and he has to drive to it himself everytime.
So you can’t help him? You talk about him being lonely with no one to help and he was a man you once looked up to and is family and you won’t help? 😂 He sounds like he wouldn’t be better off with kids if they were like you anyway.
So help him then! He’s family!
Eh. Uncle Sam decided he was ok with me never having kids before i ws ever born when he exposed my dad to agent orange in vietnam. So if anybody ever has an issue with my refusal to breed another helmet kid into the world, take it up with the pentagon. 😂
Like the guy in the comment below said: oversimplification.
Older age will bring challenges to all of us, if we are lucky to live that long, children or not. But that still doesn't mean that men who chose not to be fathers haven't made right decision. Reasons for that are often more deep than it appears on the surface. It seems to me that this guy is projecting his own fears of loneliness and failed life at least a bit.
Its about Jesus not this short life gratification, and lets be honest not everyone deserves to be parent or should be one.
Peters advice immediately after this was brilliant about the time machine. Can't believe that wasn't part of this.
I clipped that too, I believe it was in a short called "Advice for all relationships" - ill get the link..
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Perhaps there’s something more to the story than the version Joe gives. There’s a lot more to it than the simplified offering in this clip
Honestly, it is good to have kids, BUT not just have kids is a commitment!! And make sure you do it with the right person
well if most people had joe rogan type of money they would have kids, its a financial burden to have kids now
Of course it would be nice to have a loving family around you when you get old, but the problem today is the risk of the divorce is too high and when you get divorced you lose everything, including your kids. That’s makes kids not worth it today. Better to be alone than to be divorced and broke.
I'm pretty sure I won't regret not having kids when I reach my elder years.
I always wanted to be a father and to have my own kid. To experience that love that only your kid or kids can give you and that love that you can only have for your child. Ill be 40 this year. Im single with no kids and gay. I never wanted to be gay or childless. I never could bring myself to be with a woman anf VERY FEW MEN for that matter as accepting my sexuality is almost as difficult now at 39 as it was at 14. My sexuality, my singleness, and my childlessness are nearly impossible for me to talk about with anyone except with 2 very close friends. All of this had been a lifelong wrestling. It has definitely caused a great deal of stress, depression, fear and anxiety and feelings of isolation from my family friends and "community. I deal with these feeling on an almost daily basis.
A word of advice for people who know and love childless people: be careful how you approach that situation in conversation and be very discerning about if you even should at all. The hardest thing for me to hear people ask me are questions like
Do you have kids?
When are you going to have kids?
Its like a knife in my heart. And if anyone tells you they don't have kids and you dont wanna twist the blade around and destroy them in that moment for god sake dont follow up with.
How old are you?
What are you waiting for?
Most people wont tell you how bad that hurts especially men because there is alot of shame associated with all of those feelings for some of us.
Raise your hand 🙋 if you are a millennial suffering from the Peter Pan Syndrome, childless, and and pissed at this video.
Im a boomer with peter pan syndrome.
So eating shit while you are young, or eat shit when you are old or on your deathbed. I've made my choice.
Some people just don't wont to be in relationships. society It no good I mean how would like it if your gf or wife it over there flirty with another dude then be called jealous and you could nothing about it there no respect in relationships just shady people
Im a 39 and i want a family. Problem though is finding a good woman to have them with.
Adopt
@@Melnokina.-. I want a family and not be single parent.
@@arealious25 you can adopt even after marriage. My fiance and I both want to do that. Having biological kids when 10,000 kids starve daily is incredibly selfish
I feel bad for married men with kids 😬
Don't be indecisive
what a joker, Kids are not everyone's vocation, loving your wife is a vocation and child free women are out there.
Plus having kids is not the same as having a family
There’s always adoption!
Go didn’t create us to be alone. Don’t be a fool, at least try to hand kids fellows
TF is in ur 60s and alone??????? Talk sense please. You're saying if you had kids you'll be with them.. guaranteed?? What's wrong with this podcast seriously??
Why tf would u ever choose to be lonely? NO ONE ACTUALLY WANTS to be LONELY...
You can't expect everything to be fairy tale, that's why!
I just need to find a woman who doesn't want kids either
Thats sounds pefect!so peacfull!women and childern are anoing AF!if you love your inner peace and mental health stay away from them.