Gettyimages.com/Best grandmother and siblings
I don’t know about you, but being someone who is around her thirties (if you thought I’d state my age you were dreaming) I have parents who are definitely pushing me to have children. My boyfriend and I aren’t even married yet—not that that matters—and my parents are fine with us just bypassing that step at this point. Marriage used to be the topic with which they were obsessed but, honestly, I now see it was just so we’d get it over with so we could have kids. Since they can see now, after I’ve been with my guy for over five years, that marriage isn’t quite on our radar, they’ve given up on that and just want to know when they’ll see grandbabies. Sometimes I don’t know why they care so much, so I finally pried and ask. Here is why your parents are pushing you to have kids.
Gettyimages.com/A multi-generation African-American family outdoors, in the front yard of their home. The little boy, in his mom’s arms, is 3 years old, his mother is in her 30s, and his grandfather is a senior man in his 60s.
So you have nurses one day
One very practical reason your parents want you to have kids is so that you have someone to take care of you when you’re older. They’re already seeing what a great help it is to them to have grownup children to care for them, and they like the idea of you having that same help.
