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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Because as dependents they rely 100% on their parents, and deserve loving parents. They didn’t ask to be born. You don’t choose to have kids and then regret them. Sorry. They deserve betterment than that. [/quote]

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This 100%.  Save your whining for your therapist and do your job as a parent.  Your kids didn't ask for this.  YOU made the decision to have them.[/quote]

Of course we made a decision and now regret it AND if course I will properly raise my child but [b]parents are allowed to express regret just like any decision in life![/b] [/quote]

Sure we’re all “allowed” to say anything we want short of fire in a theater, but that doesn’t mean there aren’t consequences for our words such as harming those children that you’re “properly raising” or being thought less of by them [b]or other people who hear you.[/b][/quote]

What does the bolded mean? That if you confide in somebody who knows your kids that you regret having kids, that person will think less of your kids? I don't understand this.

I also don't understand why commenters continually assume that the person that a parent would say this to is the child. If somebody says they are sharing regret about marrying their partner because they are a bad coparent, do you assume that the conversation is between the parent and the child? What about confiding in somebody about an affair or something else very personal? I don't think anybody is saying that it should be totally fine for a parent to tell their own child that they regret becoming a parent, or oversharing very personal information. [/quote]

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