Discussion Feeling sorry for children

[CatAstro.Fee]

This is kind of a vent but also something I just want to talk to others about. Ideas, thoughts.
I saw someone mention something similar before and time and time again, people talk about having a child in spirit but never wanting to bring a child to this earth for their sake and I completely agree.

I would love to have a kid, but I don't want them to suffer how I did or know the horrors of world, the truth. It makes me sad when I see little kids, especially toddlers who are happy and laughing about whatever, because I already know they're gonna suffer, whether it's from their own family or cruelty of children from school, adults, finding out the world is not so kind and the things we have are built on death and ongoing awful things that still get done today.

I just want them to be happy and get the world and treatment they deserve. Maybe I will adopt, but I don't know if I will ever have money to even support another human being, with the economy now. I don't know. I don't know. I wish people would stop having kids at least until things start looking up, I've had people argue with me it's their right but also, that is a person that's life can be total shit if born to the wrong people or shit luck they get from just existing, not even getting started on environment getting extreme from toxins being put into the earth.

It is a right, but children are their own people too, they deserve the best. I've met too many people that have gone through similar things to me that no one should ever have to, trauma from their own family. Why. Parents should be loving and good examples. There's too many that have not done the work to undo generational trauma or educate themselves. Jesus.

I just remembered a lot of children are being neglected by being put on technology at an early age, I've seen it, I've been brought up that way, it fucked me up and I see other kids consuming absolute trash and sexual things and they have no clue and their parents just want a break and I understand but please, give them something tangible, please look after them. Oh god, I wish my parents had mercy not to have me or the very least not to neglect me and put me in real life things other kids were.

 

[Let Me Go]

I used to want kids but now the most loving thing I do is just not create them in the first place. I think more and more people do realize how unaffordable it is so they're choosing less or none. Imo children should only be born out of love not selfishness impulsiveness survival or financial reasons. I don't want them as another cog in the machine, to bring an innocent into this reality/world/timeline now, full of lies, deceit, pain, violence, greed, falsity. Knowing what I know I just don't have the heart to do it to them.

 

[darksouls]

when I was a child myself, I already knew that I did not want to bring children into this sick world

 

[Forever Sleep]

I tend to feel that too. There are young families around me and it's nice to hear them laughing and playing. I also wonder/ worry if it will stay like that though. It's this hope that things will turn out ok for them but, fear that thry won't.

I'm not sure it would be good to meet my friends who are parents now. I'm so anti-natilist, I think some of it may slip out. It's hard making small talk even with my own parents. I spend so much of each day feeling resentful that I was born and that I feel stuck in this life- for now.

 

[Ligottian]

If I was on some kind of deathbed today and was asked what I though was the best thing in my life I had ever done, the answer would be easy....I was never a party to bringing another human into this world.

 

[Seaofsleep]

Yep, one of the reasons I had to leave my job as a childcare practitioner, even though I enjoyed working with children I couldn't get passed these same thoughts.