No children

             You meet a wonderful person and fall in love. Whenever you think of this person, you are happy. When you get married, living together can be a bit of a struggle at first. Your thoughts of each other are no longer a question, but are still warm. Your romance has lost some of its power, but it is surviving. You know that your next few decisions will have an impacct on your relationship.. It is time to think about having children. As a parent, one of the goals is to raise children who eventually find their way to success in life, but unfortunately parenting isn't as glorious as everyone thinks.
             Having a baby makes couples worry less about their relationshiop, makes less worry about their sex life, and affects their work. Eighty percent of mothers said that lack of sleep was a common cause of arguments and sixty percent admitted that the strain of continually waking up in the middle of the night to feed their child had almost eliminated their sexual desire (Market). Ninety percent of mothers over 34 said that their relationship had been negatively affected by the birth (Greenberg). It is not worth it to have a child and make the relationship struggle with the lover that you wanted to extend the family with in the first place. Two thirds of fathers did not wake up when their baby cried. One fifth admitted that they never got up to help at all (Jagger). Women were left to cope with only four hours of sleep a night in their child's first four months (Lang). What is the point of having a husband if all the work is on the women's shoulders. They mise well be a single parent and take all the credit for raising the child themself.
             Out of 2,000 women that were questioned, almost all of them said that being deprived of sleep had made them bad tempered, forgetful and sad (AtKisson). For more than two thirds, the strain was so great that they felt unable to function properly and were more likely to be involved in an accident (AtK...

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