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How to have kids without getting married?

Sub-Zero

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Hey guys, I keep running into this problem with girls in my life, in order for them to have my kids they want to get married.

I'm not sure about marriage at all, but I want kids.

I know you'll say find another girl that will, but most I have said they don't want to just be a baby mama.

Any tips? And what is a good age to start having kids?
 

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Gents, I have two adult children who are top notch adults. Both are college grads and live on their own. The most important thing for raising children is direct involvement and providing an excellent example. Children are mirrors of their parents. This is where your intent of being an unmarried non-traditional parent falls apart. The children need the direct daily involvement with their parents. It is difficult to raise a child as a single parent. Almost all women will not want to raise the child themselves. They perceive that you want to impregnate them and leave the child rearing to them. I can't say I blame them. I can't perceive of a how your idea would be beneficial for the children. The human race has been raising our children in family environments for 1000s of years. The deeper the family group the more well round adults the children become. Think about the children.
 

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Once we look at individual situation it becomes tough to say what is the cause and affect. I have many friends who have several children. One may have become a well adjusted adult and the other a drug addict. From my observances there are two primary influences that effect our outcome, genetics and social situations. Some people are genetically predisposed to an addictive personality. While others are not affected. Some people are strong emotionally and others are not. These do not make one person better than the other but they do affect how the person deals with issues in their lives. This is why some people in a non-traditional family turn out alright. Genetically they are strong. But it is harder to turn out ok if you are lacking in your support system.

From a social aspect wish I include parenting there are influences that put us on the path of our adulthood. The truth is we as society suck at teaching each other how to be good parent. In America people believe it is their right to raise their children as they see fit. The problem is that many people do not have a clue has to do it correctly. Their example is their parents. If their parents sucked then they will also. Children are mirrors of their parent. Below are things that influence the children.

Parental behavior - If you live a clean life you children will most likely follow. If you party, get drunk, do drugs, sleep around, or are mean to people, your children will follow your example.
Parental control - Children who have strong parental guidance are better adjusted to deal with external society. They learn the need to be good citizens. Children you control the parents which we call spoiled do not understand that in society you can not do as you please. They end up in trouble in school and with the law.
Providing the basic necessities - Children need to have the basics such as food, water, security and shelter. Their psyche is greatly affected by these items. I remember once when my kids were young, 3 or 4 years old, we were having a heavy rain storm. Our ceiling developed a minor leak. No big deal but the kids freaked out. Their shelter and security were being invaded. If there is a lack of consistency with the availability of the necessities it significantly affects children.
Additional Adult mentors - Grandparents, Aunts, Uncles, Great Grandparents and other extended family give the children additional support and examples of how to live. Mature stable adults have a significant impact of children. Parents are constantly correcting and guiding the children. The situation can be tense. These other people outside of the parent provide adult guidance without the constant correcting. The atmosphere is much more laid back. The relationship is more of a mentor than a disciplinarian. The children learn another aspect of living in society.

So a person can be inside a strong family and still be screwed up. This can be due to their weaker emotional make-up, bad parenting or both. Your odds are much better if you have a strong family to guide and protect you. But you can still end up ok in a non-traditional setting if you are emotionally strong.

Notice I am not letting you of the hook for taking direct responsibility. If your intent is to father children and still fuck around the odds are you will end up with fucked up children. You can try to self justify this as much as you want but the true is if you don't put the children first they are going to be the ones to suffer. And "think about the kids" is not bullshit. If you don't want the responsibility don't have the children.

One final item. It is family nucleus not nuclear.
 

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Yes I do have strong opinions on this because I have lived through so much shit immediately outside my nuclear family (you are correct). I live in same town mid American on the outskirts of a large city. The drug problem is rampant here. It has become an epidemic that grandparents and great grandparents are raising children because the parents are incapable because of their addictions. Several of the children I know personally have physical and mental problems directly related to the parents drug additions. Two young people I have known close and personally have died of opiate overdoses. One had two children. The other was single. I know six families who are in my close circle that have drug addicts. This is not just me it has become the normal. According to the 2010 US censes 7% of children are being raised by their grandparents and 2.5% by other relatives. That number doubled since the 2000 censes. I am watching our core families disintegrate because of drugs. I just don't want to add another reason to the causes. What you may not know is that when grandparents raise the children they are usually subsides by the state government. Usually the parents get in trouble with the low. Children's service steps in and turns the children over to relatives. The children are now in the system and the state government provides health care and other support. We the tax payers are paying for this. We are also paying for the jails the parents are in, for the rehab facilities, for the medicade the parents are using along with food stamps and other subsidies. This problem affects everyone.
 

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My 2 cents... well, firstly, parenting does not have to be "perfect". Just being there is 90% of the battle -- what's important is your child feels valued, and feels that you have time for him/her, and accept him/her. So, absent fathers (all too common in today's society due to marital breakdown, court battles, accusations of violence and so on)... lead to children who are quite needy for approval and acceptance. Obviously, absent mothers too, but I'm speaking to the common case.

Now as to the specifics of how your parent your children, the most important thing is that you reflect your child's concerns back to him/her. Example of what not to do:
Child: my leg hurts...
Dad: no it doesn't, it's a scratch
Child: waahaha
Dad: pull your self together boy
How to handle this properly:
Child: my leg hurts...
Dad: ohh, poor honey... that looks very sore
Child: waahaha
Dad: (picks him up and hugs him)
The reason for this is that with the first approach, the child learns not to trust him/herself and to trust external opinions and valuations outside of his/her own. So by the time he reaches say 5yrs old, he never says "my leg hurts", and by the time he reaches 10yrs old, he doesn't even feel it consciously. However, UNCONSCIOUSLY the pain is all there and it leaks out in myriad ways. The first way leads to adults who are compartmentalized, out of touch with their emotions, approval seeking etc. The second way leads to adults who are integrated, in touch with their emotions, and self sufficient -- i.e., they trust themselves.

According to my research, the single biggest determiner of whether a child grows up into a drug addict, violent abuser (or anger addict) etc, or a functional member of society, is whether they had someone who reliably and consistently reflected their concerns back to them in childhood -- not necessarily a parent, could have been a relative, grandparent, a trusted teacher, even an older friend... if he/she didn't, he/she is carrying a negative self message that it's not okay to be who he/she is, and will always be restless, dissatisfied, looking for that next fix to temporarily override the programming and feel better about his/herself.

For more information about this, I recommend to read "Healing the shame that binds you" by John Bradshaw, "No more Mr Nice Guy" by Dr Robert Glover, "The Verbally Abusive Relationship" and "Controlling People", by Dr Patricia Evans, "Emotional Vampires" by Dr Albert J. Bernstein.

Now as to the original question, uhh well I've thought about this quite a lot because I already have a separated family (but my conscience is clear, I didn't abandon the family, the decision to leave was with enormous regret after years of trying to make it work, and although I was beta and unattractive and co-dependent, I nevertheless did my best to be a good husband and father according to the knowledge I had at the time) -- and I wanted a second family at one stage, possibly still do. However, discovering PU I got infatuated with the idea of having a circle of FWB and therefore I wondered the same question as the OP, could one have a circle of FWB and still have children? Having gained a little more maturity in pickup, my answer is no, it may be possible but not a thing to strive for.

Why do I say this, well firstly I find the idea of having a circle of FWB a little bit sterile, you cannot take her on dates or introduce her to your friends or really spend time with her other than just sex, if you do it is leading her on, and will lead to a lot of drama when she discovers you're acting like a boyfriend but not actually willing to be a boyfriend. I still want to try it -- I haven't been good at keeping my FWB frame, i.e. after the hard work of seducing a girl I've felt like I want to keep her, and haven't been willing to cut her off if she isn't happy with FWB, however I'm less needy now and could potentially do this successfully.

So my current feeling with PU is that it increases the quality of your LTRs -- i.e. you should continually strive to get better with women, but there's no point if you never reap what you sow. When you hit absolute abundance and have nothing further to prove, you may find you meet a perfect woman you want to settle down with. This would be the time to think about having children. I did come up with a complex scheme for an alternative: I would tell my FWB that I'm willing to father a child on the same basis as my other, separated, children and lay down a parenting plan which would be registered with the Family Court before the child is born, but I honestly feel this wouldn't be as good. Also, you couldn't count on getting any help from the Family Court, you'd be milked for all you are worth, and you would be very unlikely to have, for example, overnights with your baby... because the Family Court would overturn this even if you had a written agreement.

Ray
 

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Sub-Zero-

Down to five (5) requirements, in my experience (I have several friends who've gone this route... or tried to):

  • She must be financially independent and/or highly accomplished in her career
  • She must be independently minded / tough / confident
  • She must view you as extremely high value
  • She must also view you as a terrible provider/husband candidate
  • You must get her to want children with you more than you want them with her

If any of these is missing, you'll get a girl either strongly pressing you for matrimony, or just declining to have children with you on these terms.

If she isn't financially independent, the thought of potentially raising a child on her own and having to decide between raising the child or working, and not being able to hire help, and not having time to find a man she WILL marry, is downright cripplingly scary. So if you're thinking of doing this with a girl who doesn't already have plenty of coin in the bank and career gold built up, well... even if she doesn't realize it before she's pregnant, as soon as she's faced with the reality of having a child without the resources to support it, her tune's going to change.

If she isn't tough-minded, she'll have a hard time dealing with social and familial pressure to not have a child out of wedlock, especially if she isn't able to blame the father as a deadbeat runaway and instead has to defend this as a decision both entered into equally.

If she doesn't view you as extremely high value - more or less out-of-her-league in some way, compared to what she usually gets, OR (if she's extremely high value as a mate, or views herself as such) you're just about one of the only equivalent-value mate she's ever had and she doesn't think she can replace you, there's not really much of an incentive for her to enter into a less-secure position to have your child when she could find another guy just like you who's willing to negotiate giving her more (marriage, money, support, involvement) for her same contribution (child bearing/rearing).

If she views you as an acceptable husband/provider candidate, she won't agree to children sans marriage because she'll want to negotiate for marriage + kids if she thinks she can get it, or will auto-reject if she feels like she wants you in that role but you deem her not good enough for it. Even if she initially agrees to children, once she's pregnant and pressures and worries kick in, if you are a good potential provider she will change her tune. Only way around this is to be the kind of guy she looks at and says, "Ugh, I would NEVER want this guy as my husband!" while at the same time, "Hmm, he sure would give me some great babies."

Finally, if she can tell you want kids with her, and it's more than she's revealed, that puts all the chips in her corner of the table and you basically have no leverage in the negotiation now. Now it's become "Okay, so you want me to bear and raise your children... now what's in it for ME?" Even if she wants children with you, she can feign disinterest and say, "I don't care if I have children or not; what I want is a partner," or "Sure, I want kids, but my kids will be raised inside a marriage."

So, the difficulty here is you've really got to be the penultimate bad boy lover, who's super sexy and high value yet also a guy she automatically looks at and says, "I'd never in a million years introduce this guy to my friends or family." And you've got to seed the idea of having your babies without angling for it too aggressively. Like you might tell her when you're shagging her raw and she's close to climax, something like, "You totally want me to cum inside you and put a baby in you, don't you?" and then pull out and shoot on her back or front instead and DON'T cum in her. Tease her with it, but don't give it to her... and then when she starts to ask you for it, you can start saying things like, "I really want to, and I think we'd make awesome babies together, and I'd totally support you and our child, but pretty much every girl wants marriage and you know, that's the one thing I can't do."

You're typically going to want to go for women who are hitting an age where their peers are getting married and having babies, and they're psychologically wanting and getting ready for this. If you go for women who are too young for this yet it doesn't work. What this age is depends on region, background, and demographics; the more educated she is, the later it is; the wealthier she is, the later it is, typically.

I'll end the post here, without any discussion on outcomes / etc. Radeng, BigDaddySc, and Ray have discussed this here, and I don't know what kind of relationship you're trying to set up with women (e.g., you could be asking, "I want to live with her and raise our children together but I just DON'T want to get married" or you could be asking, "I want to knock her up, give her a few suggestions for names, send her a few hundred bucks a month, and otherwise never see her again"... I don't know what your intentions are towards the girl in question and any children you'd father with them, so won't start listing scenarios and implications).

But yeah... tricky! However, not impossible.

Works better with older women who are less in search of that fairy tale ending than their younger, more idealistic counterparts are, and with women who view you as pretty high value yet totally not qualified to be a husband. Better with women whose careers / businesses are their lives (because they care comparatively little for marriage) and not so well with girls whose careers aren't that great and are basically biding their time until they meet Mr. Right. Obviously, it gets harder to hook Mr. Right in when you come equipped with the spawn of Mr. Wrong, and these girls know this very well.

Chase
 
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Sub-Zero

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Chase said:
Sub-Zero-

Down to five (5) requirements, in my experience (I have several friends who've gone this route... or tried to):

  • She must be financially independent and/or highly accomplished in her career
  • She must be independently minded / tough / confident
  • She must view you as extremely high value
  • She must also view you as a terrible provider/husband candidate
  • You must get her to want children with you more than you want them with her

If any of these is missing, you'll get a girl either strongly pressing you for matrimony, or just declining to have children with you on these terms.

If she isn't financially independent, the thought of potentially raising a child on her own and having to decide between raising the child or working, and not being able to hire help, and not having time to find a man she WILL marry, is downright cripplingly scary. So if you're thinking of doing this with a girl who doesn't already have plenty of coin in the bank and career gold built up, well... even if she doesn't realize it before she's pregnant, as soon as she's faced with the reality of having a child without the resources to support it, her tune's going to change.

If she isn't tough-minded, she'll have a hard time dealing with social and familial pressure to not have a child out of wedlock, especially if she isn't able to blame the father as a deadbeat runaway and instead has to defend this as a decision both entered into equally.

If she doesn't view you as extremely high value - more or less out-of-her-league in some way, compared to what she usually gets, OR (if she's extremely high value as a mate, or views herself as such) you're just about one of the only equivalent-value mate she's ever had and she doesn't think she can replace you, there's not really much of an incentive for her to enter into a less-secure position to have your child when she could find another guy just like you who's willing to negotiate giving her more (marriage, money, support, involvement) for her same contribution (child bearing/rearing).

If she views you as an acceptable husband/provider candidate, she won't agree to children sans marriage because she'll want to negotiate for marriage + kids if she thinks she can get it, or will auto-reject if she feels like she wants you in that role but you deem her not good enough for it. Even if she initially agrees to children, once she's pregnant and pressures and worries kick in, if you are a good potential provider she will change her tune. Only way around this is to be the kind of guy she looks at and says, "Ugh, I would NEVER want this guy as my husband!" while at the same time, "Hmm, he sure would give me some great babies."

Finally, if she can tell you want kids with her, and it's more than she's revealed, that puts all the chips in her corner of the table and you basically have no leverage in the negotiation now. Now it's become "Okay, so you want me to bear and raise your children... now what's in it for ME?" Even if she wants children with you, she can feign disinterest and say, "I don't care if I have children or not; what I want is a partner," or "Sure, I want kids, but my kids will be raised inside a marriage."

So, the difficulty here is you've really got to be the penultimate bad boy lover, who's super sexy and high value yet also a guy she automatically looks at and says, "I'd never in a million years introduce this guy to my friends or family." And you've got to seed the idea of having your babies without angling for it too aggressively. Like you might tell her when you're shagging her raw and she's close to climax, something like, "You totally want me to cum inside you and put a baby in you, don't you?" and then pull out and shoot on her back or front instead and DON'T cum in her. Tease her with it, but don't give it to her... and then when she starts to ask you for it, you can start saying things like, "I really want to, and I think we'd make awesome babies together, and I'd totally support you and our child, but pretty much every girl wants marriage and you know, that's the one thing I can't do."

You're typically going to want to go for women who are hitting an age where their peers are getting married and having babies, and they're psychologically wanting and getting ready for this. If you go for women who are too young for this yet it doesn't work. What this age is depends on region, background, and demographics; the more educated she is, the later it is; the wealthier she is, the later it is, typically.

I'll end the post here, without any discussion on outcomes / etc. Radeng, BigDaddySc, and Ray have discussed this here, and I don't know what kind of relationship you're trying to set up with women (e.g., you could be asking, "I want to live with her and raise our children together but I just DON'T want to get married" or you could be asking, "I want to knock her up, give her a few suggestions for names, send her a few hundred bucks a month, and otherwise never see her again"... I don't know what your intentions are towards the girl in question and any children you'd father with them, so won't start listing scenarios and implications).

But yeah... tricky! However, not impossible.

Works better with older women who are less in search of that fairy tale ending than their younger, more idealistic counterparts are, and with women who view you as pretty high value yet totally not qualified to be a husband. Better with women whose careers / businesses are their lives (because they care comparatively little for marriage) and not so well with girls whose careers aren't that great and are basically biding their time until they meet Mr. Right. Obviously, it gets harder to hook Mr. Right in when you come equipped with the spawn of Mr. Wrong, and these girls know this very well.

Chase

Im looking to have kids before I even think of marriage. I don't like the idea of marriage at all, but I want kids. I don't want to knock up a chick and send her money every month. One of the main reasons I don't want to get married is because I want to keep on sleeping with girls. I want to do this for as long as I can, I don't want to get out of the game, but I don't want to be in my 40s or 50s trying to have a kid. I don't want to get married and cheat, and I don't want to get married and get out of the game.
 
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