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  • not necessarily, everyone has different priorities
  • No, I don't think wanting to have children is at all relative to maturity.
  • It makes me feel even more mature & more responsible with just 1 kid.
  • Remember that kid who got the first car in High School? It made him or her APPEAR more mature. Until everyone else got one ;)
  • Not at all.
  • No. If you are very young it shows naivety. It is a perfectly normal desire to have. Children are a very big responsibility, and the greatest joy a person can have. What will make you mature is experience and learning. The more you learn the better you will be able to deal with the realities of having children when the time comes. If you take time to get yourself economically stable first it will be a much easier experience.
  • Well, no. I worked in childcare for many years and I have seen many teen moms out there. So are you a teen? Cause the teen moms that I know that had kids at 14 and up sure wish they would have waited. It was a burden to them. They couldn't go to basketball games, or just out crusing with a guy....all kinds of things so think it through. That kind of a decision is a BIG one and not to be taken lightly.
  • Not in the least bit...it is a person choice for your future....it doesn't make it a selfish move either....everyone has the choice of what to do with their own lives....some people I know should have never had kids...all you have to do is read the papers.....One of my daughters doesn't want kids...if that is what she chooses then I am 100% behind her...
  • In either case, the maturity of the act can only be determined by the intent of the act. <edit> (meaning the *reasons* they do or don't want kids) </edit>
  • Not necessarily. There are many adults who have no desire to have children. Wanting children or not wanting them is separate and apart from being mature. If you believe you are not good parent material, then it is very mature to decide not to have children..especially with all the pressure people place on you to have them. Having children changes your life forever. You will no longer be most important, or come first nor will your partner. That is a very heavy thing to realize. Children aren't like toys..you know, other people have some so you want some too. Sometimes people think having children will cement their relationship. That is not a good reason to bring children into the world! :)
  • No, just means you want the next step from having a pet... a little person.
  • Little girls think that it would be fun to have a baby, then [usually] they grow out of that phase for several years, until several more years later the situation is right.
  • Nope :)
  • No! That has nothing to do with it. A person who doesn't want kids might not want them because they don't have the money to afford them or know for other reasons they would not be good for parent hood. In my opinion, that would make them just as responsible, if not more responsible. And they are DEFINITELY more responsible than those fools who spread their legs for everyone and then have many children which end up in unwanted homes.
  • haha no!!!lol wanting to have kids has nothing to do with maturity. especially alot of people mainly kids who have kids regret their decision and the child never asking to be born is the one who suffers.
  • NO...maturity has nothing to do with wanting children...the logic used to support the desire would be reflective of maturity or lack of.
  • NO Bad idea. Wait until you can take care of a baby, have a stable mate, and the financial resources to proper care for a child. In the mean time, get a puppy.
  • I would say less.
  • ?! how does wanting to procreate in an already overpopulated world make any one more mature? If anything I would say less...studies show people with fewer kids usually have higher IQ's. I think people who actually want to have more kids are thinking with their naughty parts, not their brains...and that's not a sign of maturity.
  • No...though a lot depends on your age...if you are 15 then I would say that makes you very immature if you where in your twenties or older then I would say depends on your financial and social circumstances...only that you need to be able to afford a baby and support it AND NOT RELY ON PARENTS OR CHILD SUPPORT OR SOME POOR MAN YOU CONNED INTO GETTING YOU PREGNANT to support you and you will need to have reliable friends and family for social support and help when it all becomes too much...so depends on how far you have thought out what having a baby means.
  • No, wanting children, or not wanting children has nothing to do with maturity. There are mature and immature in each group. Some people want kids, but aren't responsible when they have the child, the parents take care of them, welfare takes care of them, while they just want to keep going out and having fun, there is nothing mature about that. Other people choose not to have children because they know they aren't really nurturing and don't really want them and are mature enough to know they would never make a good parent. There are plenty of mature parents and non-parents, and some immature in each group.
  • Nah, I see where the understanding would come from though, there is a difference in being ready for marriage and being ready for kids. Anyone that is physically able to have a kid can have one, but it takes maturity and responsibility and hard work to start, and keep, a family.
  • No. Under certain circumstances, those choose not to have kids are wiser than those that are simply driven by maternal instinct.
  • You're just playing grown up.
  • Any fool can have kids. It takes a very thoughtful and determined person, however to decide NOT to.
  • Having kids has nothing to do with maturity. Taking care of them does. I've had a couple of clients who loved having kids and keep spitting them out and the state keeps taking them because they are just bad parents.

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