Anonymous #1 12w

I’d say being alone in your old age and regrets would be worse…

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Anonymous #3 12w

Having kids just to have someone around when you’re old is selfish, and you can’t expect them to stick around anyway. They aren’t obligated to do so. I have plenty of loving friends, family, an amazing partner, and pets. I would much rather live my life in a way that is fulfilling to me than to have a child I absolutely do not want, and having a child would prevent that fulfillment for me.

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Anonymous #3 12w

Somethin you’re gonna find out

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Anonymous #2 12w

He’s absolutely wrong. If he cared about kids he would watch his own

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Anonymous #3 12w

right because kids are the only way to not be alone in your old age. Not like I could get married and not have kids, or have siblings, or have friends…

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Anonymous #5 12w

All of those you listed are typically the same age as yourself. Kids (hopefully) take the best parts of you and keep them long after you’ve passed. This anti kid mentality is frankly garbage.

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Anonymous #3 12w

Because.?

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Anonymous #3 12w

And how does it affect you? IMO this is the same as someone getting fired up about a complete stranger not liking dogs/cats, not wanting to get married, not wanting to enter a certain career, etc. none of it affects anyone but the person making the decision

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Anonymous #3 12w

Not that I or anyone else has to explain their reason to be childless, but here’s a few that I know would make me a selfish mother: my partner is a pilot and would be an absent father half the year, we both have health issues that would be passed on, we have mental illness that would inevitably traumatize a child, we want to travel, neither of us have any instinct to raise children. Maturity is knowing when you’re not fit to parent even if you really want to, which we don’t.

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Anonymous #2 12w

“I have no experience being a woman or with women, here’s why you should listen to me on women’s issues”

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Anonymous #3 12w

where did you read that I was anti-kid? children are great, people should have them if they feel so led. what people shouldn’t do is pressure anyone, especially women in this case since their physical body is what births the children, into making life-altering decisions under the assumption that otherwise they’ll be lonely.

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Anonymous #3 12w

also, the idea that people can pass on a legacy through their children does nothing to address loneliness, which is what my original comment was talking about…

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