It’s possible to not particularly like kids and yet delight in making them happy. I find kids rather irritating, always have, even when I was one myself, but I have a business that sells certain things that many kids find both educational and fun, and it does kind of give me a warm glow to know that they will have been delighted to have unwrapped them as presents and have always gone out of my way to try and do better deals for parents with kids. Maybe she had a similar attitude, she liked kids in her own way, just not particularly them company, and didn’t really know how to interact with them.
Yes, the Post's title is clickbait. There is nothing in the article to support the idea that Brown "hated" children.
You're right --not particularly liking kids does not equal hating them. I'm not fond of other people's children. But I don't hate them (well, there might be a few obnoxious whippersnappers I've hated).
For my own children, thank God the maternal hormones kicked in as designed. And I loved reading "Goodnight Moon" to them when they were small.
You like kids just fine, I have three and I love them but I hate when they are moody, annoying or irritating too. Its ok to not like the annoying aspect of kids, but find joy in the good things about them.
If you truly did not like kids, you would be spreading common core or funding planned parenthood. :)
As for this story, I don’t believe she hated kids, maybe she wasn’t cut out to raise kids but maybe she had a soft spot for them because she was ignored in childhood... seriously, why write a pleasant kids book if you hated kids? Who would do that??