Nancy...   
      
   NB> DAG> Sorry about the one kid thing, if you were hoping to have more.   
      
   NB>Thanks.  We did try, very unsuccessfully, for a long time... it just   
   NB>wasn't going to happen, and it turned out that having even the one was a   
   NB>bit of a fluke, or miracle, if you will...  :)   
      
     One of my cousins was in a similar situation. She and her husband   
   tried for years to conceive a child; but she either miscarried, or   
   never conceived. After several years, they adopted a young child...and   
   shortly after that, lo and behold, she got pregnant, and now they have 2   
   kids...the adopted one, and the one conceived naturally, as it were.   
      
     Everyone's system is different, male and female (obviously), and   
   ferility issues can happen to both sexes.   
      
     I found out the other day that another individual was in a similar   
   situation that I was 35 years ago...we both contracted the chicken pox   
   as adults (and not as kids), and the effects were far worse. A childhood   
   disease in an adult will either sterilize them, kill them, or something   
   else. I caught it from my brother, who caught it from his first wife's   
   kids. He had a relatively mild case by comparison to what I had.   
      
     My case was "the worst that the doctor had ever seen". It put me in   
   the hospital for a week, and out of work at the local Burger King   
   (across the street from where I was attending to college), and out of   
   college for 2 months, by order of the State Health Department. They put   
   me in isolation, as they thought I was going into encephalitis...people   
   coming to visit me had to put on protective gear, as if I was   
   "radioactive"...well, I guess I could've been considered a "biohazard".   
      
     It was like someone had dropped me in a vat of itching powder...and,   
   even the Water Pik pulsating shower massage didn't help. Top to bottom,   
   front to back (including the genitals and buttocks), I was COVERED in   
   the pox. I had to take the darn slimy oatmeal baths for a week. :P   
      
     Then, after working around nasty solvents like methyl-ehtyl-ketone for   
   nearly 20 years, that about sealed the deal with a very low sperm count,   
   and I was concerned that it could also lead to deformities. So, I "had   
   my wings clipped" before I got married...and as my late wife, Janice,   
   noted "they wouldn't spay me, so he volunteered to get neutered". :P   
      
     But, the way the world is nowadays...along with the disobedient and   
   insolent nature of so many kids...I'm glad I'll never be able to father   
   a child. Indeed, the resident manager at the apartment complex where I   
   live said "You are so lucky you don't have kids"...apparently hers are   
   "a terror".   
      
     The ONE EXCEPTION I saw to kids behavior is with the Duggar family   
   (Jim Bob, and his wife Michelle). They have had at least 19 kids, and   
   now have grandchildren. When he goes impotent, or she goes into   
   menopause, she is going to be a basket case!! But, from what I've seen,   
   all of their children are VERY WELL BEHAVED...and that's more the   
   exception than the rule nowadays. They properly discipline their kids,   
   and that's probably why the kids are so "good".   
      
     I got my share of spankings growing up, and I don't consider myself   
   mal-adjusted. And, this talk of "you can't spank your kids, as it'll   
   ruin their self esteem", is garbage...pure and simple.   
      
   Daryl   
      
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