Today, I told my parents I don't really like children and probably won't have any in the future. They sat me down and gave me a lecture on how people who hate kids are heartless. FML
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Dead leaves, the first cold of the season and an umbrella flipped inside out: fall, the season of grace.
Today, my parents disowned me because I told them I don’t want kids. FML
Today, I was advised to never have kids because they ruin your life, ruin your body, cost you money, stress you out, and the end result is they become an adult you don’t even really like or would choose to spend time with if you weren’t related. It was both my parents who gave me this advice. FML
Today, my mother-in-law asked me when my fiancé and I were going to start having children. When I told her we weren't planning on having any, she went on a tirade about how selfish and cold I am for denying her precious grandchildren. Now she hates me. FML
Today, my parents disowned me because I threw out my wife and son after I found out that the kid wasn't mine. According to them, I'm a "heartless asshole." FML
Today, I told my mom that having watched my sister ruin her life having kids who grew into brats with criminal records before their teens, I refused to ruin my life the same way and will be childless. I then turned to leave and they were in the doorway, my sister and her two brats. I got slapped. FML
Today, my husband ranted about how children are awful, and parents who claim they love their kids are complete liars, and if everyone admitted that we hated our kids and resented them for existing, there’d be a lot more happy childless couples. We don’t even have kids for him to hate this much. WTF? FML
Today, as part of my job, I had to watch a few 5 year-olds while their parents were busy with my manager. It only confirmed my choice to never have children, and yet my mother still insists I should have one, because once they exist and I love them, I’ll see how silly my choice to not have them is. FML
Today, I reluctantly went to a family get together. My nosy aunt decided to try to lecture me on why I should spank my kids. That’s great coming from a woman who was a teen mom, had kids with 3 different guys, and now has grown kids that hate her guts. Yeah I truly need lessons on how to be a mom. FML
Today, I found the courage to tell my parents about my boyfriend. They simply reacted by lecturing me about how much he'll ruin my life, and how much they don't like him. They haven't met him yet. FML
Today, my husband and I recently decided not to have kids, because neither of us like children. Learning this, my dad wrote me out of his will and my mother swore on the Bible in church that she’s never going to speak to me again until I obey God's word and start multiplying. FML
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Top comments
MDoremis 38
Which is worse? Realizing you don't like children and having them anyway to please someone and end up resenting the kid(s) or to just not have kids and disappoint your parents? I'm pretty sure it's the first one.
HAMY_fml 23
You and your partners decision, not theirs.
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Comments (148)
MsFit 17
Tell them it's much more heartless to have kids when you know you don't want them
KxHoneyCombxP 24
Don't worry. I hate kids too. I do however, love my own. It is very different when you have to deal with other peoples kids.
DoomedGemini 38
Congrats, that doesn't mean op will. For many people, it won't change for their child and then there's a child with a parent who doesn't want them.
Schizo_teddy 4
I'd be cool with that. My mom has always called me evil and heartless for hating kids or family and I've called her weak for letting my sister's kids/and the kids at work walk all over her. She did that for years until she finally started realizing how relaxed I am compared to how stressed she is. You know your temperament, your limitations, and abilities. If you don't want kids don't have them. It's you who will have to deal with them mostly. Not them.
Thorn9000 17
At first I thought it said "chicken" instead of children and I got really confused.
oceanbrickfire 21
Great, than I'm heartless too. I just don't like little kids.
leaannec30 18
although they are entitled to their own opinion, in the end it is the decision of yourself and your spouse. keep your chin up and do what you feel is best!!!
OptimusSlime 23
do they not understand the world is overpopulated?
General_Cool 24
I don't care if you don't want to have children, but you don't have to be mean and say you hate children. Keep it to yourself. After all, you were a child once, OP.
marcranger 29
Not this argument again. I hated other children even when I was one. They were loud and whiny then, and they're loud and whiny still.
MonstreBelle 29
Can I just point out that OP never said they hate children? They said they dislike children and probably wouldn't have any. It was their parents that said OP hates children after being told OP didn't want children. Disliking and not wanting children =/= being mean and hating children. Even if OP does hate children, that doesn't make them a bad person nor does expressing their opinion about it. We all have things we hate that other people love. It's only an issue when people take things further than simply expressing their opinion.
Sheepboy 12
And how are we going to stave off the planet's desperate underpopulation? ?
shinikageWolf 15
If your parents want grandkids they should just adopt a little kid and pretend it their grandkid.