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TSLembu Goreng
post Apr 24 2024, 09:10 AM, updated 2y ago

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Good piece, some highlights:

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It is, unsurprisingly, a challenge to get solid data on the number of parents who regret having children. In 1975, the popular advice columnist Ann Landers asked her readers if, given the chance to do it all over again, they’d have children. Seventy percent said they wouldn’t; this result, though, came from a group of self-selecting respondents. “The hurt, angry and disenchanted” are more inclined to write back than contented people, as Landers observed in a follow-up 1976 column. But in 2013, a Gallup poll asked Americans 45 and older how many kids they’d have if they could go back in time. Seven percent of the respondents with children said zero. And in 2023, a study estimated that up to 5% to 14% of parents in so-called developed countries, including the United States, regret their decision to have children.
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One friend who’s asked this question has told me she felt regret during the first years of her child’s life, but that, as her child got older, the rue left. For other parents, though, the regret proves lasting. Robin, who has adult offspring in their 40s, says that, to this day, if she could reverse time, she would “certainly not have a baby ever, not under any circumstances.” She notes that she’d had no notion of what being a parent can entail. Having grown up in an affluent, cheerful family, she was glad to have children with her husband, figuring that “it all just looked like a romantic, happy road.”

Instead, after electing to be a stay-at-home mother, Robin found herself in what she calls “the domestic gulag,” a life that consisted of being “a chauffeur and an arranger and an appointment setter and a social secretary and a party planner and a chef and a meal planner and a budgeter” and “an emergency nurse and a night nurse and a psychologist and a confidant.”



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post Apr 24 2024, 09:12 AM

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that why many bullshet, make child n throw it to grandparent
TSLembu Goreng
post Apr 24 2024, 09:14 AM

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QUOTE(akecema @ Apr 24 2024, 09:12 AM)
that why many bullshet, make child n throw it to grandparent
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or hire full time maids, childcare or send to tahfiz

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post Apr 24 2024, 09:15 AM

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regret not having baby at old age or regret have a baby during young age?

which regret runs deeper?
killdavid
post Apr 24 2024, 09:17 AM

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Carl Schwab sponsored this piece ?

Life is hard, but life has a noble purpose.
But this is lost in the generation of social media and radical feminism. Why can't I have all the nice things my Instagram friend are having.

For me its nothing to regret about. It is fulfilling and it is purposeful. It is tough , yes but if you are the kind that gets satisfaction seeing tough work done, its worth it.
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post Apr 24 2024, 09:17 AM

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QUOTE(MegaCanonF @ Apr 24 2024, 09:15 AM)
regret not having baby at old age or regret have a baby during young age?

which regret runs deeper?
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having the baby itself is already a regret
it's not a toy, they realized how bad it is after few months

those that think it through and through end up with pets instead

else end up like a thread yesterday...saying life is tough because his baby is coming up....without realizing it's a choice, not compulsory

This post has been edited by MR_alien: Apr 24 2024, 09:19 AM
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post Apr 24 2024, 09:18 AM

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I also felt that such regret is a temporary thing. I got friends who jumped into bandwagon of having kids because their peers had kids as well. Most regret during the initial years. But now like normal already. I guess it’s the hassle of taking care of small kids.
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post Apr 24 2024, 09:19 AM

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If regret, your fama shouldn't give birth to you too.
kiddokitt
post Apr 24 2024, 09:21 AM

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Mau regret apa? I’m very happy to see my daughter is now a pok-pok chui young woman, the stuff that /k salivates over, and my son entering his teenage years to become a handsome young man, much like his father.
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post Apr 24 2024, 09:21 AM

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spoilt brat trying to be parents of course failed la
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post Apr 24 2024, 09:22 AM

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QUOTE(akecema @ Apr 24 2024, 09:12 AM)
that why many bullshet, make child n throw it to grandparent
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what if the grandparent pressure their children for grand kids

justify right to throw it at grandparent. thumbsup.gif


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post Apr 24 2024, 09:23 AM

 
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QUOTE(kiddokitt @ Apr 24 2024, 09:21 AM)
Mau regret apa? I’m very happy to see my daughter is now a pok-pok chui young woman, the stuff that /k salivates over, and my son entering his teenage years to become a handsome young man, much like his father.
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Drillz for pok-pok chui daughter mana?
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post Apr 24 2024, 09:24 AM

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when u are young u regret having children...

when u are old.. u will regret not having children
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post Apr 24 2024, 09:28 AM

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QUOTE(poweredbydiscuz @ Apr 24 2024, 09:23 AM)
Drillz for pok-pok chui daughter mana?
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Don’t want lah, otherwise may get targeted like raynman’s Kristie.
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post Apr 24 2024, 09:30 AM

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If she come Malaysia she will be happy. Parents here just let their kids grow like wild grass, got government to take care. Just corn kek buat anak tak perlu jaga.
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post Apr 24 2024, 09:30 AM

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QUOTE(MegaCanonF @ Apr 24 2024, 09:15 AM)
regret not having baby at old age or regret have a baby during young age?

which regret runs deeper?
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i believe it depends on scenario, if it's the 1st baby you have after 5 - 8 years and thousands of tries, you wont have regret, bcoz you know how hard it is to get 1. if you marry late and conceive, some will have regret because you wont have sufficient energy to take care of the child, everyday you would be tired and if your spouse doesn't help, it make it worst. not to mention the freedom that you used to have are basically gone. if you share that freedom together with your child might turn the table, but some people enjoyed freedom alone or with their spouse but not with their child, by making it worst, they might find it potong stim and ruin their holiday/ relaxation. i'm not ashamed to say, my wife is one of them.

if marry too early also will have regret because you would loose out many things in life. Except you really bercita cita to give birth, take care and love your children for your rest of your life would be a different story.

probably age 27 to 31 to have children would be good imo.


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post Apr 24 2024, 09:33 AM

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I dont think ppl will have regrets hving kids....especially when at night u look at their beautiful eyes when they are sleeping...

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post Apr 24 2024, 09:33 AM

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Instead, after electing to be a stay-at-home mother, Robin found herself in what she calls “the domestic gulag,” a life that consisted of being “a chauffeur and an arranger and an appointment setter and a social secretary and a party planner and a chef and a meal planner and a budgeter” and “an emergency nurse and a night nurse and a psychologist and a confidant.”

What is wrong with that? That's call being a mother and taking care of another human being.

She prefers to party all the time instead?

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post Apr 24 2024, 09:36 AM

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Apa regret.

Man up, no need to regret. It is your choice, keep moving forward.
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post Apr 24 2024, 09:36 AM

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QUOTE(kons @ Apr 24 2024, 09:24 AM)
when u are young u regret having children...

when u are old.. u will regret not having children
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this statement alone already shows you're thinking from your POV and not the child's POV which most parents are

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