THINKING ABOUT HAVING CHILDREN
514 Do you like children?
Do children like you?
Would you like to have children? How many?
515 What frightens you most about the idea of having your own children?
516 Would you rather have a boy or a girl? Why?
517 Have you ever seen your partner around children?
Did you like what you saw?
518 Do you know your partner’s religious and spiritual convictions?
Are you in agreement about how your children
should be raised when it
comes to this issue?
519 Have you discussed who would be the children’s primary caregiver?
520 Would you adopt children?
521 Would you consider having IVF?
522 What do you think about people who don’t want any children?
523 What are the usual reasons you give for explaining why you don’t have
children (yet)?:
524 Which parents are role models for you?
525 If you could select your child’s
future career, what would it be?
BEING A PARENT
526 What are the advantages of having children?
What are the disadvantages?
527 Something you have never dared to do and
which you hope your children
would do:
528 Something you have done which you would advise your children against:
529 A piece of advice that you received as a child and which you followed:
530 How would you advise your children when it comes to …
531 What do you wish you had done differently with your children?
532 How have you changed since having children?