Hilarious, as if married fathers don’t cheat. Tell that to my parents.

WTF should the government subsidize childcare? In 99% of cases, the parent chose to have a child. Why should others pay for that?

I feel if this were the case, the people I know who are parents would be better humans on average. I haven’t noticed that. I have no grudge against people with kids in general, because many of them are wonderful, but people with kids who have your attitudes generally always were and continue to be sort of terrible.

Wow. You make all parents sound like insufferable twats.

Sweetheart, you so, so, so obviously regret your children. The regret is so palpable, it’s seeping from your pores. I can practically smell it. If you did not regret your spawn with every ounce of your breeding being, your response, in its current form, would so totally not exist.

To raise good people in the world instead of relentlessly self-entitled man-babies?

So, so smug. Not for one minute will I even entertain that you felt morally obligated to have children as a favor to mankind. You had children because you wanted to.

Because you wanted to. The most selfish reason there is.

Thanks for perpetuating the DINK stereotype.

But you sure do come off as massively condescending. Blah, blah, CF people are selfish, blah, blah. What was the completely selfless reason you had kids?

This is the #1 reason MrSnuggleupagus and I don’t want kids. The WORK. The STRESS. Ugh. What do you mean you can’t come home after a shitty day and have a nap with the cat?!?

Exactly. My parents’ jobs ended at 5pm. Mine is 24/7 and it’s fucking advertising - we’re not curing cancer.

I’m convinced that this is why some parents are so rabid about hounding child-free folks to reproduce. It honestly never occurred to them that not having kids was an option, and they don’t want someone else to “get away with it”.

Can we stop with the whole “ur doin it to urself” thing please? Sure, there are probably upwards of several hundred couples in Manhattan who are both employed, with young children, who have attempted to craft a Halloween costume out of mason jars and pallets, but that really isn’t life for most of us (admittedly…

Can’t star this enough. Hourly folks are screwed by being at the beck and call of whatever hours their (often multiple) employers feel like throwing at them that week, while salaried folks are considered lazy if they leave before 60 hours- and that doesn’t even begin to cover the invisible effort people are expected…

I think it’s more to the issue that people rarely consider NOT having kids - like it’s something everyone just automatically has to do to be considered an ‘adult’ - which is utter and total bullshit.

My parents had jobs. They went to work in the morning, they worked all day, they came home. They did stuff with us.

My husband and I have jobs. We wake up before our kid to check email, we knock out the high priority stuff, kid gets up, she’s ready for school, we drop her off, head to work, we work all day, come home,…

For me, it seemed that the biggest problem is what you said is problem #1 - many of our husbands think that doing a little bit of work is equal to doing half of the work. My own husband does way more than his dad did and I think he wants to be congratulated for that. But he still only does roughly 25% of what is…

It’s really very simple.

I think it is probably because children ruin EVERYTHING. Seriously. Don’t have babies people.