Re: Having children 'is bad for your mental health'

2006-01-21 Thread Bemmzim
In a message dated 1/17/2006 9:37:47 PM Eastern Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: You must have been spared the cliche of your parents starting to ask on your wedding day how soon they could expect to become grandparents. Au contrarie mon ami. I was not all spared this event.

Re: Having children 'is bad for your mental health'

2006-01-21 Thread Doug Pensinger
On Sat, 21 Jan 2006 20:33:08 EST, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: In a message dated 1/17/2006 9:37:47 PM Eastern Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: You must have been spared the cliche of your parents starting to ask on your wedding day how soon they could expect to become grandparents.

Re: Having children 'is bad for your mental health'

2006-01-21 Thread Ronn!Blankenship
At 08:31 PM Saturday 1/21/2006, Doug Pensinger wrote: On Sat, 21 Jan 2006 20:33:08 EST, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: In a message dated 1/17/2006 9:37:47 PM Eastern Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: You must have been spared the cliche of your parents starting to ask on your wedding day

Re: Having children 'is bad for your mental health'

2006-01-21 Thread Julia Thompson
Doug Pensinger wrote: On Sat, 21 Jan 2006 20:33:08 EST, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: In a message dated 1/17/2006 9:37:47 PM Eastern Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: You must have been spared the cliche of your parents starting to ask on your wedding day how soon they could expect to

RE: Having children 'is bad for your mental health'

2006-01-21 Thread Ritu
Julia wrote: In a message dated 1/17/2006 9:37:47 PM Eastern Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: You must have been spared the cliche of your parents starting to ask on your wedding day how soon they could expect to become grandparents. Au contrarie mon ami. I was

Re: Having children 'is bad for your mental health'

2006-01-21 Thread Doug Pensinger
Ronn! wrote: At 08:31 PM Saturday 1/21/2006, Doug Pensinger wrote: On Sat, 21 Jan 2006 20:33:08 EST, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: In a message dated 1/17/2006 9:37:47 PM Eastern Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: You must have been spared the cliche of your parents starting to ask on

Re: Having children 'is bad for your mental health'

2006-01-19 Thread Julia Thompson
Ronn!Blankenship wrote: At 12:16 PM Tuesday 1/17/2006, Julia Thompson wrote: William T Goodall wrote: On 17 Jan 2006, at 4:39 am, Ritu wrote: William T Goodall wrote: Enormous costs and intangible benefits that sound like members of a cult :) Hee! So is this your new Cause then?

Re: Having children 'is bad for your mental health'

2006-01-18 Thread Matt Grimaldi
somebody other than [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Having said this I don't think there is any drive to create grfandchildren. Ronn!Blankenship wrote: ] You must have been spared the cliche of your parents starting to ask ] on your wedding day how soon they could expect to become

Re: Having children 'is bad for your mental health'

2006-01-18 Thread Ronn!Blankenship
At 11:14 AM Wednesday 1/18/2006, Matt Grimaldi wrote: somebody other than [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Having said this I don't think there is any drive to create grfandchildren. Ronn!Blankenship wrote: ] You must have been spared the cliche of your parents starting to ask ] on your

Re: Having children 'is bad for your mental health'

2006-01-17 Thread William T Goodall
On 17 Jan 2006, at 4:39 am, Ritu wrote: William T Goodall wrote: Enormous costs and intangible benefits that sound like members of a cult :) Hee! So is this your new Cause then? Just expanding my hobby of railing at human idiocies into a new area... And I'm sure there's a connection

RE: Having children 'is bad for your mental health'

2006-01-17 Thread Ritu
William T Goodall wrote: On 17 Jan 2006, at 4:39 am, Ritu wrote: William T Goodall wrote: Enormous costs and intangible benefits that sound like members of a cult :) Hee! So is this your new Cause then? Just expanding my hobby of railing at human idiocies into a new

RE: Having children 'is bad for your mental health'

2006-01-17 Thread Jim Sharkey
Ritu wrote: So is this your new Cause then? The capital c was a nice touch. Should we call him William the Crusader from now on? It has a nice, epic ring to it. Parents, Christians and Saracens beware, for William the Crusader comes!!! ;-) Jim

Re: Having children 'is bad for your mental health'

2006-01-17 Thread William T Goodall
On 17 Jan 2006, at 12:53 pm, Ritu wrote: William T Goodall wrote: And I'm sure there's a connection between the evil poisonous filth of religion and the pointless self-harm of procreation somewhere :) You can always start by checking out the correlation between atheism and child-free

Re: Having children 'is bad for your mental health'

2006-01-17 Thread Michael Harney
Doug Pensinger wrote: On wrote: I dunno. Here's some possibilities, though: Because there's more to life than a low stress level? Not much. Life*zero stress=zero life 8^) I don't know about that formula. By that formula, the more stress you have, the better your life. I would

Re: Having children 'is bad for your mental health'

2006-01-17 Thread Julia Thompson
William T Goodall wrote: On 16 Jan 2006, at 8:13 pm, Jim Sharkey wrote: William wrote: The study's findings will make happy reading for couples who have decided to enjoy the freedom and lack of responsibility associated with not having children. This just in: living only for

Re: Having children 'is bad for your mental health'

2006-01-17 Thread Julia Thompson
William T Goodall wrote: On 16 Jan 2006, at 6:54 pm, Matt Grimaldi wrote: William wrote: The study's findings will make happy reading for couples who have decided to enjoy the freedom and lack of responsibility associated with not having children. Doug wrote: Hmmm, having

Re: Having children 'is bad for your mental health'

2006-01-17 Thread Matt Grimaldi
William wrote: The study's findings will make happy reading for couples who have decided to enjoy the freedom and lack of responsibility associated with not having children. Doug wrote: Hmmm, having children can be extremely stressfull, but I can hardly express the pride and

Re: Having children 'is bad for your mental health'

2006-01-17 Thread William T Goodall
On 17 Jan 2006, at 5:51 pm, Julia Thompson wrote: William T Goodall wrote: On 16 Jan 2006, at 8:13 pm, Jim Sharkey wrote: William wrote: The study's findings will make happy reading for couples who have decided to enjoy the freedom and lack of responsibility associated with not

Re: Having children 'is bad for your mental health'

2006-01-17 Thread Deborah Harrell
Matt Grimaldi (aka EvilTopPoster grin!) wrote: Congratuations! Damon (the soon-to-be-perpetually-sleep-deprived) wrote: As a new daddy (my kid was born on 1.6.06) it's a pretty great feeling... Hup, Hup, Huzzah! Name? Weight? Etc.? Not-news flash: not having children does not mean

Re: Having children 'is bad for your mental health'

2006-01-17 Thread Ronn!Blankenship
At 12:16 PM Tuesday 1/17/2006, Julia Thompson wrote: William T Goodall wrote: On 17 Jan 2006, at 4:39 am, Ritu wrote: William T Goodall wrote: Enormous costs and intangible benefits that sound like members of a cult :) Hee! So is this your new Cause then? Just expanding my hobby of

Re: Having children 'is bad for your mental health'

2006-01-17 Thread Bemmzim
In a message dated 1/16/2006 4:56:00 PM Eastern Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Somewhere I've heard that the biological drive to procreate can only be completely satisfied by grandchildren. :-) I have quite a few years to wait before first-hand experience. There a sense in

Re: Having children 'is bad for your mental health'

2006-01-17 Thread Ronn!Blankenship
At 07:25 PM Tuesday 1/17/2006, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: In a message dated 1/16/2006 4:56:00 PM Eastern Standard Time, somebody other than [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Somewhere I've heard that the biological drive to procreate can only be completely satisfied by grandchildren. :-) I

Re: Having children 'is bad for your mental health'

2006-01-17 Thread Ronn!Blankenship
At 04:07 PM Tuesday 1/17/2006, Deborah Harrell wrote: Matt Grimaldi (aka EvilTopPoster grin!) wrote: Congratuations! Damon (the soon-to-be-perpetually-sleep-deprived) wrote: As a new daddy (my kid was born on 1.6.06) it's a pretty great feeling... Hup, Hup, Huzzah! Name? Weight? Etc.?

Re: Having children 'is bad for your mental health'

2006-01-16 Thread Matt Grimaldi
William wrote: The study's findings will make happy reading for couples who have decided to enjoy the freedom and lack of responsibility associated with not having children. Doug wrote: Hmmm, having children can be extremely stressfull, but I can hardly express the pride

Re: Having children 'is bad for your mental health'

2006-01-16 Thread Jim Sharkey
William wrote: The study's findings will make happy reading for couples who have decided to enjoy the freedom and lack of responsibility associated with not having children. This just in: living only for yourself is less stressful than taking responsibility for the mental, physical and

Re: Having children 'is bad for your mental health'

2006-01-16 Thread William T Goodall
On 16 Jan 2006, at 8:13 pm, Jim Sharkey wrote: William wrote: The study's findings will make happy reading for couples who have decided to enjoy the freedom and lack of responsibility associated with not having children. This just in: living only for yourself is less stressful than

Re: Having children 'is bad for your mental health'

2006-01-16 Thread William T Goodall
On 16 Jan 2006, at 6:54 pm, Matt Grimaldi wrote: William wrote: The study's findings will make happy reading for couples who have decided to enjoy the freedom and lack of responsibility associated with not having children. Doug wrote: Hmmm, having children can be extremely

Re: Having children 'is bad for your mental health'

2006-01-16 Thread dcaa
To:Killer Bs Discussion brin-l@mccmedia.com Subject: Re: Having children 'is bad for your mental health' On 16 Jan 2006, at 8:13 pm, Jim Sharkey wrote: William wrote: The study's findings will make happy reading for couples who have decided to enjoy the freedom and lack of responsibility

Re: Having children 'is bad for your mental health'

2006-01-16 Thread Jim Sharkey
William T Goodall wrote: Jim Sharkey wrote: This just in: living only for yourself is less stressful than taking responsibility for the mental, physical and moral development of another human being. So why would anyone want to do that then? I dunno. Here's some possibilities, though: Because

Re: Having children 'is bad for your mental health'

2006-01-16 Thread Jim Sharkey
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Re: Having children 'is bad for your mental health'

2006-01-16 Thread Ronn!Blankenship
At 03:37 PM Monday 1/16/2006, William T Goodall wrote: On 16 Jan 2006, at 6:54 pm, Matt Grimaldi wrote: William wrote: The study's findings will make happy reading for couples who have decided to enjoy the freedom and lack of responsibility associated with not having children. Doug

Re: Having children 'is bad for your mental health'

2006-01-16 Thread Matt Grimaldi
William wrote: The study's findings will make happy reading for couples who have decided to enjoy the freedom and lack of responsibility associated with not having children. Doug wrote: Hmmm, having children can be extremely stressfull, but I can hardly express the

Re: Having children 'is bad for your mental health'

2006-01-16 Thread Matt Grimaldi
Congratuations! -- Matt - Original Message From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Killer Bs Discussion brin-l@mccmedia.com Sent: Monday, January 16, 2006 13:39:52 Subject: Re: Having children 'is bad for your mental health' Biology. Desire to pass genes on to a new generation. Love kids

Re: Having children 'is bad for your mental health'

2006-01-16 Thread dcaa
Jan 2006 16:50:36 To:brin-l@mccmedia.com Subject: Re: Having children 'is bad for your mental health' --- On Fri 01/06, [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: brin-l@mccmedia.com Date: Mon, 16 Jan 2006 21:39:52 + GMT Subject: Re

Re: Having children 'is bad for your mental health'

2006-01-16 Thread William T Goodall
On 16 Jan 2006, at 9:47 pm, Jim Sharkey wrote: William T Goodall wrote: Jim Sharkey wrote: This just in: living only for yourself is less stressful than taking responsibility for the mental, physical and moral development of another human being. So why would anyone want to do that then?

Re: Having children 'is bad for your mental health'

2006-01-16 Thread William T Goodall
On 16 Jan 2006, at 10:58 pm, Matt Grimaldi wrote: William wrote: The study's findings will make happy reading for couples who have decided to enjoy the freedom and lack of responsibility associated with not having children. Doug wrote: Hmmm, having children can be extremely

Re: Having children 'is bad for your mental health'

2006-01-16 Thread Jim Sharkey
William T Goodall wrote: Jim Sharkey wrote: Because there's more to life than a low stress level? Not much. Tell that to every Type A personality out there. Because you did a favorable cost-benefit analysis? Enormous costs and intangible benefits that sound like members of a cult :) Costs not

RE: Having children 'is bad for your mental health'

2006-01-16 Thread Ritu
William T Goodall wrote: This just in: living only for yourself is less stressful than taking responsibility for the mental, physical and moral development of another human being. So why would anyone want to do that then? I dunno. Here's some possibilities, though: Because

Re: Having children 'is bad for your mental health'

2006-01-15 Thread Doug Pensinger
William wrote: The study's findings will make happy reading for couples who have decided to enjoy the freedom and lack of responsibility associated with not having children. Hmmm, having children can be extremely stressfull, but I can hardly express the pride and satisfaction I feel

Re: Having children 'is bad for your mental health'

2006-01-15 Thread Russell Chapman
William T Goodall wrote: If you thought that the joys of watching your young ones grow up was one of life's simple pleasures, think again. Parenthood is actually bad for your mental health, according to the latest research. Questions included how often you felt lonely, you felt depressed,