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Fair. Personal blogs are famously objective places lol
by zekenie 4y ago
Fair. Personal blogs are famously objective places lol
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- toomuchtodo 4y agoNot saying it hasn’t worked out for you (kudos if it has!), but being part of a Facebook group with 80k+ participants who regret being parents (as a casual observer), I’m just pointing out it’s not a universal truth. It’s totally worth it for you. For many, it is not.
- zekenie 4y agoTotally get it. I guess I’m saying that there’s a parenthetical “in my experience” attached to everything I say. I do not believe being a parent is right for everyone or in all situations. I’m just saying that even though it’s hard, if you want to do it, it’s worth it (in my experience)
- toomuchtodo 4y agoTotally fair. As a parent, no one told me what the experience was going to be like. An older friend (with college age children) said, “if we told you what it was like, you never would’ve had them.” It’s expensive. It’s suffering. It is never ending, and there is no guarantee your children will care about you when they become adults and are autonomous. You’ve taken on a decades long job you’re paying for. Consider my comments as attempts to inform before permanent life decisions are made, because for many, no one is being real about what the experience is going to be like.
- Turing_Machine 4y agoWhen compared to the number of people on Earth (or even the number of people on Facebook), 80k isn't even a rounding error.
- toomuchtodo 4y agoI should’ve used a better example. The parent regret rate in the developed world is roughly around 10%. That’s significant and worth calling out. https://sciencenorway.no/children/how-many-people-actually-regret-having-children/1898652 https://sciencenorway.no/children/how-many-people-actually-r...