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“If You Didn’t Want Kids, You Shouldn’t Have Had Them”
Spoken only by someone without children….
Just yesterday, I was reading some of the comments made about one of my parenting-themed blogs. I wasn’t complaining about my kids. I was explaining the challenge of being a single mom, parenting teenage girls, the roller-coaster of emotions, and the grief of forever-unrealized dreams and hopes.
There always seems to be one person who totally doesn’t get it. They have something to say that makes no sense in the context that I was writing my blog. Of course, I wanted my kids. But that doesn’t mean there isn’t hardship. That doesn’t mean that we live in a world where we, as single moms, are supported enough to do it alone. That doesn’t mean we thought of millions of things we would come in contact with during the duration of our mothering…which is, the rest of our lives.
I don’t want to hate on those people, or any people, for that matter. They are the ones who chose not to have children. They are the ones who partnered with someone who agreed with them. I am all about that. Why are you reading parenting blogs? And where in the world do you get off being critical of those of us, who decided to have children?
Just wondering, that’s all. Because I am not critical of you. You, with your DogMom bumper stickers…
