• kindnesskills@literature.cafe
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    10 days ago

    Were you told you would regret having your kids? That’s wild.

    It’s a lot more common for people to be told that they will regret not having kids, than being told they’ll regret having them… so I think the similarities in the responses is quite natural, dont you? Not a lot of parents can answer this post with their kids in mind, but pretty much every voluntarily childless person can.

    • fizzle@quokk.auEnglish
      10·
      10 days ago

      It’s a lot more common for people to be told that they will regret not having kids, than being told they’ll regret having them

      That’s not my experience, at all.

      When I was in my 20s plenty of older guys would tell me not to have kids. Admittedly, these were the older weirdos hanging out at bars, but the source of the advice isn’t really in question right now.

      • kindnesskills@literature.cafe
        10·
        10 days ago

        Every single voluntarily childless person I’ve spoken to have had the experience of being told they’ll regret it.

        I can only recall two people being told they’d regret their decision to have kids… and they were both teenagers, so even though I don’t agree with saying something like that, I can understand the sentiment of wanting them to wait a few years.

        Seems we life in very different worlds.