Opinions on having a son knowing he will be bald?

[Cassin]

by the time your kids start to bald, 20 years from now, there WILL be treatments out that stop hair loss permanently.

Correct.

The future for fighting hair loss is not regrowth or HM, it's a total cessation of hair loss.

 

[Aplunk1]

by the time your kids start to bald, 20 years from now, there WILL be treatments out that stop hair loss permanently.

Correct.

The future for fighting hair loss is not regrowth or HM, it's a total cessation of hair loss.

People have been believing this for decades. I'll believe it when I see it.

 

[Cassin]

by the time your kids start to bald, 20 years from now, there WILL be treatments out that stop hair loss permanently.

Correct.

The future for fighting hair loss is not regrowth or HM, it's a total cessation of hair loss.

People have been believing this for decades. I'll believe it when I see it.

Well science has just begun tackling this so at least try to be positive..........

 

[powersam]

how bout if your just plain ugly, should you not have kids then?

or color blind, how could you possibly spawn a child if they might not be able to differentiate between red and green? oh the humanity.

the topic of this thread is probably up there with ronaldkias new minoxidil bone. absolutely ridiculous.

how bout if your not very good at sudoku? probably shouldnt breed then, who knows what suffering that poor child will go through.

 

[jj_24]

It wont be for another 20-30 years befor he gets male pattern baldness hopefully there will be something sweet out by then. Just start a fund at a young age so when he is older he can get new cloned hair.

 

[s.a.f]

I think we're probably all misinterpreting the original post. I doubt that it was meant to ask should all baldies be geneticly erased from the population, but more just to question whether as fathers we would be concerned about the impact of hairloss on our own children having suffered the experience ourselves.

 

[jj_24]

Hairloss sucks but Im still glad I was born. If there was a good fix to it I wouldnt care at all it would be like putting oxy on a pimple. Would you not want to be born if you knew you would have to take a pill or get a procedure that worked 100% and looked as good as new im sure nobody would even care about male pattern baldness. The only reason we care is because its a "disease" with no cure.

 

[barnabas]

It's an issue that tears me apart.

To have kids or not to have kids?

On one hand it's not fair to deny myself the joys of parenthood and the satisfaction of carrying on my bloodline and yadda yadda yadda. People want kids right?

On the other hand my bloodline is cursed. Cursed with embarassment to any male which it borns. I mean I know if I end up having a son he will be bald. And he will most likely hate it and slightly if not majorly resent me for it.

In all honestly I'd love to have a girl my first shot and just stop there. Of course it ain't that easy.

What do you guys think?

No offense, but what's wrong with you? It's not like choosing to have a kid when you have AIDS, plenty of people live perfectly happy lives when they're a lot more bald than most on this site, and hopefully your kid will be one of those...though I guess they do tend to follow in their parents' footsteps. You also could also marry a woman whose father has tons and tons of hair and then there'd be a good chance your kid wouldn't go bald.

 

[Guest]

You also could also marry a woman whose father has tons and tons of hair and then there'd be a good chance your kid wouldn't go bald.

Why propagate this myth? My dad is bald and married my mom and her dad was NW1 at 60 at the time. Guess what, I'm going bald at 22, in my dad's pattern. You can inherit it from either side.

 

[Hans Gruber]

you guys are so ill. you dont want to have kids just coz they could get male pattern baldness? lol. really, go see a doctor.

I concur :hairy:

 

[barnabas]

You also could also marry a woman whose father has tons and tons of hair and then there'd be a good chance your kid wouldn't go bald.

Why propagate this myth? My dad is bald and married my mom and her dad was NW1 at 60 at the time. Guess what, I'm going bald at 22, in my dad's pattern. You can inherit it from either side.

What myth am I propogating? If he marries a woman whose family has no history of hair loss, there is a fairly good chance his son will not have it, just like I said. Of course he very possibly would still have it, since it can come from either side, but it would tip the odds back the other way at least a bit, which is all I was saying.

 

[Guest]

You also could also marry a woman whose father has tons and tons of hair and then there'd be a good chance your kid wouldn't go bald.

Why propagate this myth? My dad is bald and married my mom and her dad was NW1 at 60 at the time. Guess what, I'm going bald at 22, in my dad's pattern. You can inherit it from either side.

What myth am I propogating? If he marries a woman whose family has no history of hair loss, there is a fairly good chance his son will not have it, just like I said. Of course he very possibly would still have it, since it can come from either side, but it would tip the odds back the other way at least a bit, which is all I was saying.

What proof did you have that there's a fairly good chance he won't have it? If the dad side has a bunch of baldies on it there is a good chance he will get it.

 

[barnabas]

"Fairly good" = >10% chance he won't, I guess? I don't know why you're being a*** about this. I think if only 50% of his genetic material is defective there's a fairly good chance the son wouldn't go bald at a young age? There are plenty of people who don't follow in their father's footsteps, for better or worse (in my case, much, much, much worse).

 

[Guest]

"Fairly good" = >10% chance he won't, I guess? I don't know why you're being a*** about this. I think if only 50% of his genetic material is defective there's a fairly good chance the son wouldn't go bald at a young age? There are plenty of people who don't follow in their father's footsteps, for better or worse (in my case, much, much, much worse).

greater than 10% chance he won't? so you're saying that there's a 90% chance he will, which makes it a good chance? color me confused.

 

[recboi]

you guys are so ill. you dont want to have kids just coz they could get male pattern baldness? lol. really, go see a doctor.

I concur :hairy:

It's a little different thatn other stuff I was hearing. I was listening to the BBC a couple days ago, and women were talking about that they would have abortions for just the possibility their kid might have someone. What the guys on here are saying is that they'd rather not have kids and not subject them to the cruel world for baldies. Face it, as more time passes, women are getting more and more picky. Where I live, 5'4 women that way 200 lbs pretty much demand Brad Pitt.. Imagine to when the rest of the world catches up to that> It's not like the posters here are saying "oh no, my kid might be bald, abort him honey!"

 

[IBM]

recboi the question is not about hairloss but how the kid is going to deal the hairloss.

A kid to be happy spend a lot of money since the early days to work time. In average its about 23 years.
A poor kid to survive in this world with dignity and hapiness must be a mixture of Ghandi with Newton. That's unlikely.

So having kids should be only given to elite families with a lot of money and integrity. A rich kid my deal better with hairloss than a poor or medium kid since he have more money to treat it and confidence to forget it as an issue.

 

[WorldofWarcraft]

You also could also marry a woman whose father has tons and tons of hair and then there'd be a good chance your kid wouldn't go bald.

Why propagate this myth? My dad is bald and married my mom and her dad was NW1 at 60 at the time. Guess what, I'm going bald at 22, in my dad's pattern. You can inherit it from either side.

What myth am I propogating? If he marries a woman whose family has no history of hair loss, there is a fairly good chance his son will not have it, just like I said. Of course he very possibly would still have it, since it can come from either side, but it would tip the odds back the other way at least a bit, which is all I was saying.

What proof did you have that there's a fairly good chance he won't have it? If the dad side has a bunch of baldies on it there is a good chance he will get it.

Thank you for spreding truth and logic on these boards Jayman. I am tired of these "You don't get bald if you stop masturbating/if your uncle's brother is not bald you won't be" kind of posts.

Next, they will be telling us that smearing bat dung on our heads cures baldness :roll:

 

[Guest]

You also could also marry a woman whose father has tons and tons of hair and then there'd be a good chance your kid wouldn't go bald.

Why propagate this myth? My dad is bald and married my mom and her dad was NW1 at 60 at the time. Guess what, I'm going bald at 22, in my dad's pattern. You can inherit it from either side.

What myth am I propogating? If he marries a woman whose family has no history of hair loss, there is a fairly good chance his son will not have it, just like I said. Of course he very possibly would still have it, since it can come from either side, but it would tip the odds back the other way at least a bit, which is all I was saying.

What proof did you have that there's a fairly good chance he won't have it? If the dad side has a bunch of baldies on it there is a good chance he will get it.

Thank you for spreding truth and logic on these boards Jayman. I am tired of these "You don't get bald if you stop masturbating/if your uncle's brother is not bald you won't be" kind of posts.

Next, they will be telling us that smearing bat dung on our heads cures baldness :roll:

there are a lot of ignorant people on here. i'd rather go bald than not being able to masturbate/have sex anyway.

jayman: speaking truth to baldness.

 

[Guest]

I would prefer hair over sex. But I think you are exaggerating, Jayman. Only a tiny minority seriously believes in this whole "masturbation causes baldness"-Bullshit.