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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Everyone says they love having kids but to me, parents look absolutely miserable. Having kids isn’t fun but it’s the only way to have a family [b]and surround yourself with people later in life[/b]. [/quote]

Yeah, not so much in DCUMland. Read all the posts about how liberating it is to cut "toxic" parents/siblings/family out of one's life. Children being raised by parents with this attitude are going to normalize that, and will be doing the exact same thing in 20-30 years. [/quote]

This is a whole thing in our culture today. There was an article in The Atlantic recently about the normalization of cutting people off and how it's basically the first thing suggested in Very Online spaces whenever people mention any problem in any relationship at all.

There's a thread in off-topic about why people are so unhappy in our culture today. An unwillingness to work through difficult things in a relationship (caveat that some things, like physical abuse, require distance immediately) is a part of that, I think.[/quote]

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