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Raising kids absolutely sucks 99.9% of the time. Society is constantly riding your ass demanding you follow their every law, desire, and regulation and if you

Raising kids absolutely sucks 99.9% of the time. Society is constantly riding your ass demanding you follow their every law, desire, and regulation and if you do it right no one gives a shit other than to milk the kid dry in taxes for being raised to be productive. If you do it wrong, well there's a jail cell waiting and you lose all your friends and family and live in terrible guilt. The kid, well perhaps rightly the kid thinks he's owed a proper raising so there's no thanks for providing it. It's a suckers game and by the time you're free again you're getting old and evolution is ready to wind you down. Knowing what I do now, I wouldn't do it again.

AussieWog93 3y ago
Are you actually a parent? That seems like a very warped view.
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- Erratic6576 3y ago
  Yeah people look down on me when I talk like this. It’s like you must love it if you’re going through it. I love my son but caring for a child from nine a.m. to eleven p.m. is exhausting.
thehappypm 3y ago
I have a 1-year old and I think, so far, it has sucked about 10% of the time, max.
- toomuchtodo 3y ago
  I have two toddlers and it has sucked more than it hasn’t (~7 years). ymmv, n=1, all that jazz. Roughly 8-17% of the population regrets having kids (depending on study [1]), and a substantial cohort simply doesn’t want them [2], so it’s not for everyone. [1] https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8294566/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8294566/ [2] https://www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/2021/11/19/growing-share-of-childless-adults-in-u-s-dont-expect-to-ever-have-children/ https://www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/2021/11/19/growing-s...
imacomputer 3y ago
I don't know man, I know it sounds cliche, but kids were one of the best things that "accidentally" happened to me. Its really not as bad as most people make it out to be. I even got 2 for 1 type deal. Sure there are bad days, but most are good. And maybe someday, when the money is gone, and the pensions are one fire, they will take care of me.
- deafpolygon 3y ago
  > And maybe someday, when the money is gone, and the pensions are one fire, they will take care of me. That's looking less and less likely. Children are more likely to move away, around the world or further from home these days. And unless you move close to them, most likely you will not see them. Statistically, anyways.

AussieWog93 3y ago

Are you actually a parent? That seems like a very warped view.

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Erratic6576 3y ago
Yeah people look down on me when I talk like this. It’s like you must love it if you’re going through it. I love my son but caring for a child from nine a.m. to eleven p.m. is exhausting.

thehappypm 3y ago

I have a 1-year old and I think, so far, it has sucked about 10% of the time, max.

toomuchtodo 3y ago
I have two toddlers and it has sucked more than it hasn’t (~7 years). ymmv, n=1, all that jazz. Roughly 8-17% of the population regrets having kids (depending on study [1]), and a substantial cohort simply doesn’t want them [2], so it’s not for everyone. [1] https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8294566/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8294566/ [2] https://www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/2021/11/19/growing-share-of-childless-adults-in-u-s-dont-expect-to-ever-have-children/ https://www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/2021/11/19/growing-s...

imacomputer 3y ago

I don't know man, I know it sounds cliche, but kids were one of the best things that "accidentally" happened to me. Its really not as bad as most people make it out to be. I even got 2 for 1 type deal. Sure there are bad days, but most are good. And maybe someday, when the money is gone, and the pensions are one fire, they will take care of me.

deafpolygon 3y ago
> And maybe someday, when the money is gone, and the pensions are one fire, they will take care of me. That's looking less and less likely. Children are more likely to move away, around the world or further from home these days. And unless you move close to them, most likely you will not see them. Statistically, anyways.