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posted 2 years ago in Babies
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  • poll: When are you planning to start having kids and How?
    0-1 year after the wedding (biological) : (8 votes)
    15 %
    1-3 years after the wedding (biological) : (15 votes)
    28 %
    3-6 years after the wedding (biological) : (13 votes)
    25 %
    6+ years after the wedding (biological) : (2 votes)
    4 %
    We never plan to have children. : (2 votes)
    4 %
    We already have children, but we want more. (When?) : (1 votes)
    2 %
    We already have children, and we are done. : (0 votes)
    We plan to exclusively adopt [a] child(ren). : (0 votes)
    We plan to adopt AND have biological children. : (8 votes)
    15 %
    We hope one day to become Foster parents to children in need of a home. : (2 votes)
    4 %
    An 11th thing which I will tell you about in my comments! : (2 votes)
    4 %
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    rabbit    September 3, 2010   Milwaukee, WI

    I am just curious, who out there has talked to their significant other about having children? Who already has children, but wants more? Or is already done having children? Do you plan to have the baby? adopt? foster children? How long before you want to add children to your family, if you plan to add them?

     

    We want kids one day, but are unsure of the time frame. 2-5 years after marriage seems right, but it'll depend on lots of different circumstances like school, jobs, where we live, etc. I am open to adoption and fostering.

     

    Just FYI: you CAN vote for more then one thing! So you plan to adopt, foster, and hav eyour own kids, you can mark all relavent categories! :)

     
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    MissAsB    June 6, 2009   Married in CO, Living in AL

    Right now, we don't have any desire for kids.  Maybe that will change with time when we have friends that are parents and we have more interactions with kids!

     
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    cinemaparadiso    July 16, 2015  

    We want kids, but not until we both have wonderful, steady jobs that we love--probably in 3-6 years! And probably not more than two... even two is pushing it.

    I suspect I may have some problems getting pregnant, so we may end up adopting--and I'm cool with that! Especially if they're a little bit older, that's ok with me. FI wants us to have biological kids... but I just want to have children to give a good home, biologically ours or not.

     
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    gretchin405    November 13, 2010   Florida Keys

    We plan to start trying for our first about 6 months after the wedding.  FI will be 32 and I will be 28 and would like to try to have our first biological child before I'm 30.  FI is also adopted, so we would like to adopt at least one child as well.

     
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    LittleLynx    May 28, 2011   Canada

    As soon as we are financially stable, I think. We both want to have kids while we are young, and FI is very much looking forward to being a daddy! :D

     
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    daniellemybelle    June 19, 2010   Baltimore, MD

    We want to have at least two kids biologically in our late 20s, which is 6+ years away. We are definitely not in a rush to have kids because we are still pretty young! I also really want to adopt, more than FI does but he is open to it. Ideally, we'd have two kids biologically and then adopt one or two more, but who knows how it will actually work out!

     
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    toothfairyb    September 4, 2010   Vancouver, BC

    We're waiting about 5 years or so til we're in a better financial situation and we're a bit older. We'd both like to wait until we're in our late 20's. :)

     
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    spaniel    March 2010   Los Angeles, CA

    We would love to start immediately (we're in our late 20s and would like to finish before our mid 30s)... but I'm still in grad school and we've got about a year or two before we're stable enough for that to be a real possibility. Definitely within three years of the wedding, possibly as soon as one year later.

     
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    abrideagain    October 24, 2009   Austin

    We each already have one...but we want another one immediately.  We've been together for two and a half years now, just married last weekend, and I'm already off of my bc.  It's just how it is for us.  I don't know how long it will take to get pregnant, and we're not "trying" trying, but we're trying, if that makes sense...

     
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    KMSull    August 7, 2010   Lexington, KY (via Atlanta, GA)

    Right now, we've decided that IF we ever want kids (which we totally don't want them at ALL right now), we'll wait til after he's done with phd school and we're settled somewhere, which means he'll be at least 30 and I'll be at least 28. I'm okay with that!

     
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    We plan to start 2-3 years after we get married because we want to have our first around our mid 20s. We're thinking about having 3 (or maybe only 2, it depends how the first 2 go!) and we want to be done by our mid 30s.

     
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    JoesWifey    May 24, 2009   NYC/Wedding in Indiana

    I wouldn't mind having them now :) More realistically though, I'm hoping not longer than two years, 3 tops. We're young, but I don't want to be old parents! lol Also, I'd love to adopt, but I'm not sure if we could ever afford it. Having one then adopting the next would be ideal! I'd love to be able to do that, but I don't see it happening.

     
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    Shae726    June 20, 2011   Columbus, OH

    Well me and my FH have been together for 10yrs and we're both 30. He's wanted kids for quite sometime now so we're planning to have them soon after the wedding.

     
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    cheerful    September 2009 - eloped  

    We have a policy of: if we both decide to and the time is right, we will, and if we don't, we won't. It's really hard to explain to people that we're not just wishy-washy and we won't "change our minds," but that we believe the choice to have children needs to be made in context. We're open to biological children, but prefer adoption and fostercare.

     

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