HACKER Q&A
📣 roschdal

Do You Have Kids?


Do You Have Kids?


  👤 sethammons Accepted Answer ✓
Since I was 15, yes. Still with the mom over two decades later. She had to take a year off high school and skipped college. I graduated on time and got academic scholarships to cover tuition for university. A hard start; I don’t recommend it. I like how things turned out, and I like who I am and my history is a major part of that. But man, things were hard and many choices were driven by immediate needs over long term planning; this hurt income for a long, long time.

👤 s1t5
This is the high quality content and discussion that I come to HN for.

👤 batt4good
Nope, and I do not have plans to have them since for the first time in my life since finishing college my mental health is in a good place.

I acknowledge some people like the idea of having a family, but I have zero interest rolling the dice on my mental health where someone else's life is on the line. Especially when my ability to keep a partner "happy" bears the penalty of half my net worth.


👤 scott31
Yes, big mistake

👤 hatboxreappoint
No and childfree (won't have them)

👤 runjake
3 of them.

👤 austincheney
Yes

👤 photonios
Almost

👤 quickthrower2
Yeah

👤 PaulHoule
Yes

👤 giantg2
Yep

👤 maps7
nope