Hear Me Out: Your Kids Don’t Owe You Anything
Slate Gender and Society
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The Dilemma of Parenting a Child
"No amount of reading, no amount of advice from other family members or friends can prepare you for what it is like to have a child," she says. "If we really understood ... how hard parenting is, the feelings you're talking about, good and bad, if we really understood it, would anyone have a child? Oh, yeah, the human race would die out." She adds that there's some middle ground: People are having their first kids often in their 30s. 'I do wish the culture was really pushing you don't have to do this'
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