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Your kids are, of course, the best thing that's happened to you, you love them more than anything, etc. etc. But are there any of you parents who, if you could go back in time, would advise yourself *not* to have kids?

Am not parent/results
71.4%
No, I would advise kids!
22%
I'd advise against kids
6.6%

3,839 votesFinal results

3:26 AM · Feb 9, 2021

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it truly depends on the day.

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Only regret is not having him sooner.

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hyper(bolic) disco(unting) girl

@hyperdiscogirl

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People have incredibly strong psychological mechanisms against even being able to think this thought, let alone say it

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This is a great question. I feel the impulse to say, I might advise myself to wait longer to have them. But in truth, if the world waited tell parents felt totally ready to have kids, there probably wouldn’t be very many kids.

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Ugh, this question is hard. 70% of me says absolutely have kids, and 30% of me says better not.

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only advice would be have them earlier

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I’d have at least one more kid.

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100%. In my particular situation with the person I was with, I had no fucking business reproducing with.

MacMillan (∞)

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That was a good question.