Oh, we know. And we’ll still complain about being tired all the time whether you like it of not.
Almost everyone I work with has kids, and when they talk about them it’s universally complaints. How expensive they are, how much time they take up, how draining they are on their resources and energy. And then in the next sentence they’ll turn to me and ask me why I don’t have any kids.
Because the nice moments with our kids will look fucking insane to everyone else, even people with kids.
The hardships of parenthood are universal though, the moments of happiness not so much.
But asking why people don’t want kids is inane. There are a 1000 good reasons why, one of them being “Fuck off Brenda”.
Remember before you had kids?
It’s kinda like that.
Oh I understand. That’s exactly why I do not want to have kids.
Fuck this guy for forcing his kids to wage slave and pay rent their whole lives. At least my unborn kids will never suffer this world and people like this.
Oh yes, never seen such an accurate poster being held up.
Because I have always lacked the ability to look at others and see the decisions they have made and how those decisions impact their lives.
I have never known anybody with a child. I have no basis to judge if having a child takes a lot of time or not.
I’ve never heard anybody complaining about how children take time, money, and emotional energy.
So of course I’m completely unaware of anything to do with what it means to have a child
I further speculate I didn’t have a child by accident. By accidentally never coming in a woman who was not managing her fertility with birth control, by accidentally using condoms, by accidentally ensuring all of my partners and I otherwise exercise caution. It’s not because I was aware of what it means to create and rear a child.
My partner and I will be married 9 years in January. We don’t have kids.
We are very well aware of how much free time we have.
🙄 It’s not a given! Plenty of people have another job, do passion projects, volunteer, assist family, attend schooling, etc. None of that is “free” time! You aren’t automatically noble or harder-working if you choose to spend your time parenting…
Free time isn’t just time spent doing nothing. Free time is the time you have where you get to choose what you do. Volunteering, passion projects, playing sports, going to the gym, joining a band, gardening… thats all optional things that you have chosen to fill your free time
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This guy is basically an anti-vax pediatrician btw, so he’s working hard on giving parents that free time back in the absolute worst way.
Somehow I knew all of this just by the smug look on his face
People like this are awfully cavalier with how other people’s time should be spent. Apparently if we don’t spend it the way they do, it’s just free.
I dont understand your sentiment here. Is free time not just the time where you get to choose to do something as opposed to having some responsibility or obligation that requires your attention?
At what point does the obligation cease being itself a choice and thus counting as free time?
Thank you, that’s what I was getting at. I suppose I should have expanded a bit, as it seems I wasn’t clear to a few. You worded it perfectly.
Children are not the only responsibility in the world.
thats why i wear a condom
Vasectomy here.
