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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Maybe you would be unhappy anyway, with or without kids. Some people (myself included) are just prone to depression and being unhappy and this would happen no matter your life circumstances. Also, everyone’s life is complicated to some degree. People are complicated. I think to a certain extent you’re romanticizing the kids-free life. No doubt you have it harder than other parents since you do have a kid with special needs. But no one has it perfect and no one is happy with their life all the time (unless they’re insane or really dumb).[/quote]

I am a mildly depressed single and childless person and I both disagree and agree with this.

On the one hand, I think sometimes people who get married and have kids before they hit, say age 35, don’t get that being childless at forty is very different from being childless at twenty five or even thirty. When you are younger you have tons of peers who are also childless and you can feel normal and have lots of fun. Once you get older your kids start having kids and they are immersed in thwt life and many of your friends just totally drop you. It’s not that great.

But, when someone is depressed and childless, they don’t have to take care of anyone but themselves. They just have to drag themselves out of bed and to work and back and make sure they shower and eat. Adding kids into that mix could increase depression. It just adds more burdens to deal with.[/quote]

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