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It’s OK to Feel Ambivalent About Your Children
- oblib 7y agoWow... I cannot imagine feeling like I didn't want my children around so I could be having more fun, or "children that he feels he likes better". It's not OK to feel ambivalent about your children. In truth it is about selfish as one can be. "Among fathers I see, I’ve noticed they’re more irritable, they’re down about the fact that child rearing just feels so challenging..." Wow! Pure selfishness. My 1st wife had to be committed to a psyche ward after losing our 2nd child at birth just 14 months after our first was born. This meant I had to fill her shoes and become a "Mom" too for our daughter. Now that was challenging. So, no apologies when I say that sounds like the wimpy whining of spoiled children that've never grown up and still don't want to.
- DiseasedBadger 7y agoLet me guess: another stimulating screed from a leftist author who thinks normal are crazy for calling them inhuman? What is wrong with people? There is NOTHING more fundamentally human than loving your children!
- dang 7y agoCan you please not post ideological rants to HN? Those just lead to even lower-quality comments, and we're trying to go the opposite way here. https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html