I agree with LetsPoddy as well as with others. It shouldn't be a requirement or a sense of fulfillment for everyone by h
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fiatlux-1 — 13 years ago(February 08, 2013 09:03 PM)
To answer the OP's question: She doesn't want them.
Same reason she hasn't been married since 1981. I can't imagine she hasn't met a nice man since then.
But I still think that's WHY she has lived so long, and lived so healthy. No husband, no kids.
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ellino_kanadezo — 12 years ago(March 02, 2014 12:16 AM)
Maybe she didn't want any kids. Judith Light said that the reason she didn't have kids was not because she didn't want them, but because with a career and being a mother she couldn't do both. Maybe Betty White felt the same way
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cmjohnson87 — 11 years ago(May 25, 2014 07:38 PM)
She has said multiple times that she was always devoted to her career and didn't think she'd make a good mother because of it, she is extremely close to her step-children to this day. And is very involved in their lives, just never had any children of her own.
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OccasionalPoster — 11 years ago(July 03, 2014 04:42 PM)
Betty White isn't the only one that is/was childless:
Greta Garbo (she was BI, by the way)
Lillian Gish
Louise Brooks
Mae Clarke
Louisa May Alco111ctt
Emily Dickinson
Jane Austen
Mae West
Tallulah Bankhead
Katharine Hepburn
Billie Holliday
Patricia Highsmith
Harper Lee
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dangerousheart77 — 11 years ago(January 24, 2015 03:43 PM)
Well if you don't find the right person to have kids with, then don't have kids. Period. That is why I have yet to have children. It is not that I do not want to, but I would not bring any into this world without stability like I was raised. Also I have had a physical problem which prevents me from easiness of conceiving. I always knew for almost 16 years now that I really could not conceive a child, since I was a late teen. Maybe someday I will adopt if I ever found someone, because there are a lot of needy souls out there that do not have loving homes.
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Yorick_Brown — 9 years ago(January 16, 2017 10:14 PM)
It is not that I do not want to, but I would not bring any into this world without stability like I was raised.
That's very selfless of you.
Maybe someday I will adopt if I ever found someone, because there are a lot of needy souls out there that do not have loving homes.
That's very humble and noble of you.
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We try but we don't belong
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TwistHer — 11 years ago(October 03, 2014 12:00 PM)
People who don't breed are in minority and will always be, so there's no need to "worry" that human would go extinct because of that. But well, yeah, considering the way people have been building and "regenerating" everything, for this planet and most of the other species it would be the best to be "human free".
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HOHNancy — 11 years ago(October 16, 2014 07:06 PM)
A lot of people who are childless either couldn't have any or just don't want them. Maybe Betty doesn't want any. A lot of famous people don't have any kids. And I agree with one of the posters here.having kids doesn't guarantee happiness or take care of you when you get oldthere are people in nursing homes whose kids don't visit them at all.
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karlsatx1 — 11 years ago(January 19, 2015 07:35 PM)
I understand not having children. I'm a 33 year old man and have never been married or even wanted children. I don't care for them, whether they are related or not. Just not for me. Having children is serving a life sentence without the possibility of parole. I'd rather be executed. If2000 I had children you would see me on the 10 o'clock news being arrested for murder. Don't need any more of those people around.
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karlsatx1 — 11 years ago(January 19, 2015 07:37 PM)
I understand not having children. I'm a 33 year old man and have never been married or even wanted children. I don't care for them, whether they are related or not. Just not for me. Having children is serving a life sentence without the possibility of parole. I'd rather be executed. If I had children you would see me on the 10 o'clock news being arrested for murder. Don't need any more of those people around.
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startup — 10 years ago(January 18, 2016 06:04 AM)
I think it's good when someone knows for sure they don't want children. Some people have them then find out after having them it's not all they thought it would be. I never judge someone by if they have children or not.
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DennisAlexis — 11 years ago(February 19, 2015 05:44 AM)
Not everyone wants or can have kids. Nothing wrong with that. I don't want kids and I'm perfectly happy.
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