Inside the Growing Movement of Women Who Wish They d Never Had Kids
It s unthinkable, and it s
definitely unspeakable, but women all over the world are coming forward to say it: I regret having my children.
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Here s the thing about realizing that you shouldn t have had kids, says Laura , 37, a journalist based in Los Angeles. You can t take the decision back.
Laura once believed that she wanted to be a mother. She had little direct experience with children no siblings young enough to need tending to, no babysitting jobs and when she and her husband decided to start a family, she wondered if she knew enough about what that meant. I asked some friends if we could get the basics from them and they ran us through the general infant care stuff in maybe 45 minutes, she says. In retrospect, it was laughably insufficient. I really didn t know what I was in for.