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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I might say something like this without meaning it, because secretly I feel sorry for you and your empty life. [/quote]

Or, you're just angry and bittter that settling and down and having a family is just 'something you do', like getting good grades and going to college. You never really gave it much thought.  That's why it seems so frustrating for you when others around you choose to not have children because you didn't know that was an option. You didn't know you could be happy without having children. [/quote]

I feel like this was true a generation ago but is much more rare now. People have kids later and have fewer kids and I think are much more intentional now. I don't know very many people who had kids without thinking now. And even those that do -- it works out for the sometimes too. With birth control people have choices now and it's not like it was for my parents who were expected to marry and have kids by their early 20s. I think a lot of people from that generation wound up hating parenthood.[/quote]

Well, 45% of all pregnancies in the US unintended, so it is not quite the curated plan that you describe.

https://www.guttmacher.org/fact-sheet/unintended-pregnancy-united-states
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Except if you read your own link, only 18% are categorized as "unwanted." The rest are people who want kids but get pregnant before they mean to. These get categorized as unplanned but are different.

Also a lot of unplanned but wanted pregnancies are subsequent children. So they are already parents.[/quote]

But people are often not keeping a tight leash in how and when their family grows. That is the point  [/quote]

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