People love their babies because they are biologically programmed to do so. And yes, because their babies are the embodiment of themselves and an external, cuddlable, trusting, wide-eyed product of their affection for each other, but mainly because of what (in our family) is known as the Great Biological Con-Trick. Small animals are usually pretty appealing - okay, exclude less pretty objects like mole-rats (and even they presumably still seem beautiful to a blind mole-rat mother), but we all tend to go a bit soft and gooey over kittens, puppies, lambs, chicks and ducklings, because we are evolutionarily programmed to do so - it maximises the survival chances of small creatures when they are young, helpless and utterly dependent.
Yes, babies sometimes cry, but it's not all the time, and there's always a reason for it; you just need to work out what the reason is and sort it out. After all, before they have speech, they have no other way of conveying it to you that they are hungry, or in some other way uncomfortable, that they are awake and feeling lonely and therefore distressed, or indeed that anything else is not right with their little world. Once they are more settled in the world and able to do more, they have less need to cry at all. And yes, there is a fair amount of nappy-changing involved, but actually even that isn't that bad, especially when they are tiny and living on milk - once they are on a fully grown-up sort of diet it's not so good, which is a bit of an incentive to get them house-trained, but even so, it isn't so bad when it's your own toddler.
People love their babies because they are biologically programmed to do so. And yes, because their babies are the embodiment of themselves and an external, cuddlable, trusting, wide-eyed product of their affection for each other, but mainly because of what (in our family) is known as the Great Biological Con-Trick. Small animals are usually pretty appealing - okay, exclude less pretty objects like mole-rats (and even they presumably still seem beautiful to a blind mole-rat mother), but we all tend to go a bit soft and gooey over kittens, puppies, lambs, chicks and ducklings, because we are evolutionarily programmed to do so - it maximises the survival chances of small creatures when they are young, helpless and utterly dependent.
Yes, babies sometimes cry, but it's not all the time, and there's always a reason for it; you just need to work out what the reason is and sort it out. After all, before they have speech, they have no other way of conveying it to you that they are hungry, or in some other way uncomfortable, that they are awake and feeling lonely and therefore distressed, or indeed that anything else is not right with their little world. Once they are more settled in the world and able to do more, they have less need to cry at all. And yes, there is a fair amount of nappy-changing involved, but actually even that isn't that bad, especially when they are tiny and living on milk - once they are on a fully grown-up sort of diet it's not so good, which is a bit of an incentive to get them house-trained, but even so, it isn't so bad when it's your own toddler.
Yes, it's all pretty time-consuming, and the tiredness is very far from good (I should confess that my number 2 baby turned out to be numbers 2 and 3, and for about a year I averaged 2 hours' sleep per night - that was seriously not good, but we got through it) but the happiness that comes from being parents of babies and young children, watching them grown and develop into toddlers and pre-schoolers tends to keep you going.
By the time they get to the teenage years you've invested a lot of time, effort and (sorry to mention it) money in them, and it tends to feel a bit too late to back out. Which is just as well, because they can be pretty obstreperous, difficult and, er, challenging in their teens - if people had to somehow give birth to teenagers, rather than cuddly babies, there might be far fewer births in the first place!
So I think you're wrong about both babies and teenagers, but you're obviously at the stage when you don't want babies, which is fine. Don't have babies unless or until you get to the stage where you suddenly find you can't bear not to! And if you never do get to feeling like that, well, it's not compulsory, and there are plenty of other ways of living.
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