I doubt highly that the hyper-intellectual types in this article represent all women. They're probably better off not having children. But it is frightening that our society is creating so many of them.
The Lord said...”be fruitful, and multiply.”
The contraceptive mentality triumphant.
What gets me about this is all the families out there that can’t have children and would walk on hot coals to have a child and here you have these horrible women who don’t deserve to be a mother bytchin and moaning about it! It boils down to them being so full of themselves and what they want. I feel sorry for the children.
If you ever wondered where cat ladies come from.
Wow, I wonder how the child feels KNOWING that mommy wishes he/she was dead or non-existent. Especially touching must be the knowledge is that it would be for their mommies comfort level and having the newest electronic toys.
May God bless the children and change these women’s hearts and minds.
I never got married and had kids and it is an ache in my hart. I believe if you look at theses people you will find very self centered people that don’t want to take responsibility for anything. I believe that children forces responsibility on anyone that has them and it is this responsibility that is being chafed by those that don’t want to be parents.
Their ‘regret’ is half the result of society treating children as literally disposable and half the result of them being allowed to whine unchecked. I don’t get to cry about my crappy job, why should they get to cry about having kids in an age where effective contraception is nearly on every street corner? After all I have to have a job and having kids is optional, so where the **** do they think they have a right to snivel?
In a sane world the news sites would not even print their bleatings.
This is how a false meme is created.
Find a tiny number of dissatisfied mothers, and parade them around as the norm.
If they would look for women who regret *not* having children, they would be deluged by the numbers reporting.
I suspect that a lot of these women who “regret” children would not be happy if they did not have any.
There are people who simply are always unhappy, no matter what.
This is heartbreaking. Marriage for both women and men is a soul stretching event, so is parenting. All these women are saying is that they do not have the depth and breadth of spirit to love someone beyond themselves.
I praise God every day and thank Him for the grace and courage to love beyond myself. The rewards are greater than the sacrifices, but the sacrifices must first be embraced.
It doesn’t even require selflessness, it just requires the ability to love. What is life without that? My sympathies to these shallow people.
After having a child with medical risks I regretted not having many more. I even wanted to adopt one of those Haiti babies after the earthquake but was told I was too old. Too old?! I was like 42.
Now I just really enjoy raising my child. Everyday she gives me a kiss and a hug and says she loves me.
Everyday. :)
(Then we do a fist bump routine, that slightly gets altered about every week.)
I can’t help it wonder with her experience as she describes it, how her son turned out. I have a friend much younger than I whose Mom sounds like this woman, and this poor person grew up never feeling they were valuable.
Typical, really. Many women treated babies as possession, as something to have that gained them attention. Once that was out of the way, they didn’t want them anymore. My best friend’s wife is that way. She lost any motherly instinct once the parents and sisters went back home.
I’m in a group with five other ladies — all between 65 and 75. Often I hear, “I love my kids, but if I had it to do over again I wouldn’t have any.”
I don’t have any — “for the sake of the children”. I’d have been a terrible mother. Terrible. Some day I expect to regret the decision; we’ll see.
Step 2 in the movement to legalize post-birth ‘abortion’ - Make mothers in to victims.
They have been taught to be selfish. Having a child means being selfless. Also, our society does not allow the mother to stay home because we need two working parents to support the welfare class and illegals.
I have a niece who has two children and is constantly whining about how American companies aren’t giving her and her kind six months of maternity leave.
I’m sure there are far more women who regret not having children. Maybe not in their 30s and 40s, but in their 50s and older when they turn around and ask themseleves what was the point of it all?