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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Completely different that you wanted them but it didn't work out.

I give like 10% thought to people who didn't have children but could have, but didn't want them. I think they have denied themselves having a full life, the full human experience.

However, again, different from you. You have recognized that there does exist a loss. I am sorry for your loss, btw. I think your loss will be apparent to others, on some level, spoken or not.[/quote]

Similar to this, I find them a little self-centered in a way that anyone is when they don't have 100% responsibility for a young child. I don't hold that against them (I used to be that way). I am not saying that OP is self-centered since I don't even know her/him, that's just my experience with people I know. [/quote]

Nothing is more self-centered and selfish than having a child.  We wouldn’t have survived as a species without parenting having a huge payoff to the parents. I write this as a parent.  It’s a totally selfish endeavor.   [/quote]

But didn't you know?  According to the Parenting Is My Entire Identity subset of parents, they have done the world a colossal favor b choosing to have children, because f they didn't, no one else would have either, and the human race would have OMG DIED OUT!!!

They also like to threaten childless people into reproducing by threatening them with OMG YOU'LL DIE ALONE IN A NURSING HOME, as if A. that were a remotely decent reason to have a child and burden to demand of them or B that they pretend the majority of people who die in nursing homes don't have children, which is total BS.  [/quote]

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