Stopped reading right there!
Freerider Ping
Well Duh! Raising kids IS hard work, especially the 14-18 years, it gets better when they bug out? I suppose so, as far as the daily grind goes, but you never stop worrying about them. I told my older son, “kids are supposed to be a joy until 13, so you end only up with 5 or so years of stress, you’ve been a pain since 8, thats 10 years, no wonder I bald and grumpy.” I still love him but at 18 it was time to go!
While this guy does touch on some reasoned issues, his take on childbirth and the resultant unhappiness is just strange IMO. Yikes.
“The professor is a real piece of work, I say.”
Oh, he’s a piece of something alright. “Work” is not what I was thinking, though.
It depends what you mean by “happy,” doesn’t it?
If having a pair of Armani socks makes you happier than having a family with all its joys and sorrows, then maybe you are a bit, shall we say, shallow?
Speaking of psychoanalysts, Freud never really did understand what the world “love” means.
One of the best times in our lives as parents for my spouse and myself was having a houseful of tumbling, running, giggling toddlers all under four.
We absolutely adored our kids and still do. We wouldn’t have traded it for the world.
Anti-breeder diatribe.
Is he a poofter?
Is he a zero population growth ecoweenie?
What do you want to bet that Professor Gilbert had a bias against children and in favor of abortion long before he started his “research?”
Thanks to liberals, of course raising children in modern America is a nightmare.
Liberal schools make them into spoiled, selfish little wildings—and then you get arrested if you try to slap some sense into the little brats.
I have three children - a 19 year-old, a 16 year-old and a 2-1/2 year-old. I am just as happy now as I was before they came along, if not more.
With all due respect, the Professor is an idiot.
Stopped reading right there!
Wow. I hope they didn’t spend a lot of money on the research, because I’ve done my own, and have found the root cause:
Adulthood.
It used to be, children grew up to be adults here in the US at one time. With the boomers, they decided that adulthood was not for them and have opted to remain adolescents until they die.
The majority of the people I know well who have kids are less happy because of them. Spoiled brats and monsters, the lot of them (and the children are ever worse).
I plan to stay single, child-free, and happy.
If humanity is lucky, this professor is practicing what he preaches. Just like the pro-abortion crowd, they view their babies in the womb as special and they view yours as deserving a fork in it’s head.
Now back to the article. The professor is operating under the illusion that married with children means no other options but children.
When the article mentioned a mishmas of “studies” from the U.S. and Europe I just yawned. These studies often don’t even report what people say they report.
However, the prof. does have a point. People who have made grave errors in judgement or bigotly stick to evil notions will rationalize themsleves until they’re dizzy. Consider the foolish people who pay a lot of money for a “green” car often try to justify themselves in a feeble way by saying they are saving the planet.
Yours truly,
The Woim
Our only regret is that now we only have two children. I know the two remaining kids mourn every day, and always will.
I still wouldn't have traded it for anything, though. Breeders rule!!!!
Another compelling scientific reason to murder our unborn. (heavy sarcasm)
I guess all my life I've been around the wrong people. People who love their children and wouldn't want a life without children. People whose children brought them great joy and happiness. As someone who only has step children, they have brought me joy and happiness.
BINGO - and it's why narcissistic liberals have fewer children. They're always in search of their inner child and don't need competition from a real child... Sad.
Hey prof Sherlock, it is not the place of your children to make you happy.