Topic Talk | What if I don't want children?

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In this episode of The A to Z English Podcast, Xochitl explains why she may not want to have children. Transcript: 00:00:00 Jack Hey, A is the English podcast listeners. It's Jack here and we just want to announce that we are now on WeChat. Our WeChat ID is A-Z English podcast that is A-Z English podcast, one word all lowercase. 00:00:17 Jack And if you. 00:00:18 Jack Join the group. You will be able to talk with me. You'll be able to. 00:00:22 Jack Talk with social. 00:00:23 Jack And we can answer your questions. We can read your comments on the podcast. So we'd love for you to join us and be active in our we chat group. Our WeChat ID is A-Z English podcast. Thanks. See you on the app. 00:00:49 Jack Welcome to the A-Z English podcast. My name is Jack and. 00:00:52 Jack I'm here with my co-host social. 00:00:54 Jack And today we have an interesting topic. 00:00:56 Jack For you and social, I'm going to. 00:00:58 Jack Let you introduce the topic today. 00:01:04 Xochitl Today, we're going to talk about. 00:01:07 Xochitl Societal pressures and expectations kind of in this upcoming generation, which includes, you know, people my age and younger, and we're going to talk about how I maybe don't want to have kids. 00:01:22 Jack MHM. 00:01:24 Xochitl Yeah. So I don't know what to say about that, except I guess I've gotten to an age finally. 00:01:29 Xochitl There, you know one once people know like they ask me how old I am and once they know, you know, they they sometimes ask, you know, do I want to have kids or am I thinking about having kids? And the answer is kind of no. I mean whenever I hear screaming children, it just dries up, it dries. 00:01:50 Xochitl The uterus right up, Jack to the side. 00:01:51 Xochitl Of. 00:01:52 Xochitl Something I just I hate. I I can't really stand the shrill shrieking of of joyous children. I'm just kidding. But it is it. It is really hard and and I just see there's so much responsibility. I admire people who are parents. Of course I know it's really hard. 00:02:01 Jack Yeah. 00:02:10 Xochitl But I do see there's so much responsibility and it kind of makes me feel like you just never know where things are gonna go. Like a lot of things are kind of out of your control when you have kids and. 00:02:25 Xochitl It's scary because I I I I guess I always go to the darkest, you know, recess of my mind and think you know what? If someone murdered my kids or you know what? What kid murdered someone you know and and not just that. It's like every decision that you make for the rest of your life will revolve around your kids and even when your kids are adult. 00:02:36 Jack Hmm. 00:02:49 Xochitl You're going to worry about them every single day, and you're gonna. 00:02:54 Xochitl Like put your energy into that bill. Never stop being your kids, you know. 00:03:00 Jack Oh, I I know exactly what you mean. It's. But can I go back and back a little bit? Are you are you offended when people ask you that? 00:03:05 Xochitl Oh yeah, Jack, rewind. 00:03:09 Xochitl I don't really care but, but I know some people. Some people do get offended and I think that's their right because it's kind of like it's not really anyone's business, you know, and if. 00:03:19 Jack Yeah, it's kind of an inappropriate question in some in some ways. 00:03:22 Jack I feel like. 00:03:23 Xochitl It's kind of a crazy question because it's like if I wanted kids and could have kids, wouldn't I have them right now? And then it's like, and if I didn't want kids, then why are you asking me and like? 00:03:29 Jack You're right. 00:03:35 Xochitl Like there's just or if I want kids and couldn't have them like, then we're just about to open a really uncomfortable can of worms, especially if you don't know me super well. Like, what if you asked me that and I have on my, like, fifth round of IVF and we know it's not gonna work anymore. And I'm like, I start sobbing my eyes out. And you just ask me, you know, if I want to have kids, you know what I mean? Li