“I Am Not Happy About It:” A family dreading twins reflects the selfishness of our culture

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[skr]

Adopting a girl must’ve been beyond their problem-solving capabilities.

[kabumpo]

”They” did not get pregnant. Only a woman has a womb and carries a baby.

[dragonblustar]

I have twins with ADHD, how’s that for stress? But if I were blessed with more twins, I’d be overjoyed!!!! Children are a blessing from God. I really wish I could have more.

[Nifster]

I am speechless

[Hetty_Fauxvert]

This is indeed shocking (and you know, not much shocks me anymore). My husband and I are the GRATEFUL parents of fraternal twin boys. We both had fertility problems so we used IVF. We were advised that it was really a long shot for us, with maybe a 15% chance of getting one baby. We got TWO and we feel like the luckiest people God ever put on this Earth.

I will admit that twins aren’t a walk in the park. Our boys are “high energy” (that’s “CRAZY” in non-doctor-speak) but I feel like my life began the day they were born. We didn’t have any relatives to help us, so their infancy was really difficult for us. We live in a small house with one bathroom and don’t go on fancy vacations and all the rest ... but what kind of monster uses IVF and multiple embryos, knowing the possible outcome, and isn’t delirious to get a two-fer? Those people don’t deserve what they have. They should probably put those kids up for adoption. I’m sure they’d get more loving parents that way.

[21twelve]

“Not so great for the parent’s pocketbook...”

It was probably partly for that reason that I fainted as they were running the ultrasound on my wife’s tummy and the technician awkwardly asked “Um. Um. Did your doctor think, um, that you, um, might be having, um, twins? ‘Cuz you are.”

They were born very early and stayed in the hospital for 7 weeks. But healthy. And while the first two years were a struggle - 15.5 years later they (girls) have been a real blessing.

[Ronin]

Astounding... Every time I see twins I smile, and I can tell that — especially in the case of the young ones — the mommies and daddies are just as pleased as punch and as proud as can be.

Pity the poor kids with worthless cretins like this for parents.

[boop]

Exactly! They almost always use at least two fertilized eggs in IVF. 3 is too chancy. The wife and I only got ONE viable fertilized egg out of 5 retrieved, and he's a perfect 9 month old now.

Boy did we sweat it out when my wife was pregnant.

This guy is an ignorant fool. Didn't he listen to his doctor?

[wardaddy]

I live in what some call the Hipster Capital of the Southeast...I am not surprised.

Why would a woman procreate with such weak men....I actually had this conversation with two 20 something very pretty women yesterday who said there are few educated alpha men in Nashville....no doubt...not under 40

[wardaddy]

My children and their momma are my reason for breathing

I have always been big on making and raising babies

it was never anything but a given for me...natural

wifey as well

good thing we didn’t meet when she was 20 and I was 28...whew

i’d be even more broke from college costs

[Roos_Girl]

I have no idea what you are referring to.

[metmom]

ping.

Some people don’t deserve children.

I know couples who would give their right arm to have ONE of those babies that *thing* is whining about.

I pity those children,being born into such a family.

[kabumpo]

The writer of the article says at one point (about the couple)
”they got pregnant.”

[reaganaut]

Yep and I’m one of them. We have battled infertility for years and can’t have children of our own. He can just give me one or both of the kids, MrR and I would me more than happy to take them

[metmom]

I always thought it was a cool thing to give birth to twins.

I wanted twins as well. Didn't get any, but I always thought it would have been great.

[servo1969]

This man is still a little boy.
He doesn’t want to move on to the next level.
He’s angry that his children’s needs force him to stop doing whatever he pleases 24/7 and do for them instead.

You can imagine the rest of the words I would use to describe him seeing as how my wife and I will never conceive.

[MacMattico]

Me to!

[verga]

I was born in May, 14 months later my mother had twin girls. Three of us in diapers at the same time. Fifty plus years later she says she never regretted having us that close together, her only regret is that she was unable to have more than just us three.

[yldstrk]

this dude is like my ex, I was thrilled with the children, he regarded them as an interference

[yldstrk]

Men who aren’t men aren’t men because they are selfish narcissists, not because of the feminists.