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But lemme guess "having children is the most rewarding thing in life". In this day and age if you don't know that's what comes with having kids, you aren't smart enough to have kids. Unfortunately for those of us who consciously decide to avoid all that shit, we are forced to pick up the slack because you made a choice without understanding the consequences.
Further, this is the childfree comm. Don't like getting called out, ignore the fucking comm or block it.
If this community is only about circlejerk and amplifying your own views you are free to ban me.
I didn't felt called out. Just wanted to incite some understanding and empathy.
But what's your solution to this? Nobody should have children? Why sow envy and hatred instead of advocating for solutions where people with children are able to work as well?
What was the point of bitching about how much work having children are? What's the solution?
It's just venting. Do you want us coming into a parenting comm and deriding you for complaining about your kids?
But you did make a choice, and often, people without kids are viewed as the solution rather than pushing back against the system that forces you to need that solution. There's stories of parents fully expecting childfree people to sacrifice their free time for the sake of parents as if they were obligate babysitters or able to cover at a job or whatever. We get to bitch and moan about that stuff. Just like you get to bitch and moan about the downsides of having children.
It is all about status. Parenting is hard, most adult people understand it. That is why people tend to give them "breaks that are not really breaks". If you want those "breaks" go get yourself a toddler. Bitching about timeoff which is not really timeoff. Go get a grip. If parents start to offload constantly their job onto you that is different question. If not then mind your own business. Childfree? more like childish
Good point
Collective child care and the abolition of the nuclear family?