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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]The reactions of the parents in this spread demonstrate just how desperate they are to maintain the fairy tale that their lives weren't a series of huge mistakes.

You're not doing yourself or anyone else a favor by suppressing your true feelings about having kids. Young adults deserve to know the truth that having kids today is horrible, and it's likely to get worse.[/quote]

I think the insane reactions of many in this thread is because they ARE miserable with their lives- work, marriage, other relationships, parenthood- but that doesn't mean parenthood overall is bad. It can be a great thing.

In candid online discussions between those who deeply regret parenthood (not on DCUM!), I actually observe a lot of similarities with what I read in candid online discussions of those who are vehemently childfree. Both groups seem to have a history of familial dysfunction in their own childhoods. Which then either sets them up to not be able to psychologically handle their lives after they become parents, or sets them up to become anti-child (as opposed to merely being a person who chose not to have kids).  [/quote]

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