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Is it, especially for males, a moral/filial duty to procreate?

Ah, so... I just learned my biological grandmother died of cancer hen my mom was fourteen.

This probably means I won't be donating genetic material.
 
rysworld said:
Ah, so... I just learned my biological grandmother died of cancer hen my mom was fourteen.

This probably means I won't be donating genetic material.
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I don't think that would automatically exclude you from donation. Sometime's cancer's just a matter of external factors, or even just shitty luck. It's not necessarily inherited.
 
embryonic cell cancer, I think it was called.

It means that one of my grandmother's parents gametes (egg or sperm cell) had the cancer gene, so it was in every cell of her body.
 
this might count as bumping because it's been a month but oh well it's my opinion and posting in a month-old thread in the DH isn't really as big a deal as posting a picture of hitler raping the grand wizard

anyways i didn't read through anything past the first like three posts but i don't think it's a duty to at all, if i ever intend on having children i'm definitely adopting (if i end up with a guy that's the only choice anyway). i think it's borderline selfish to have a kid especially just to keep your surname going when there's thousands upon thousands in adoption centers who would totally love to get out of them.

and also no matter who i marry we're both keeping our surnames and our ADOPTED kid's last name will be our surnames hyphenated (if you can do this i don't know if you can).

so yeah no it isn't a big deal and fuck surnames and also based on the post above this the topic has changed and this is a bump but oh well
 
(if you can do this i don't know if you can)
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you can, my friend's name is watson-russell because his parents couldn't decide what surname to give him.
 
what a coincidence my name is russell

well sweet then i'm doing that. i didn't know if you could do that unless both of the parents also had hyphenated surnames
 
You can give your kid whatever name you want, I think. Doesn't have to be your surname, even.
 
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