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Shout out to !childfree@lemmy.world

Edit: k, idk why you downvoted me, was trying to show you another sub with an audience directly for this question that you may want to also ask, but k go ahead and downvote me OP.

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Didn’t downvote you but it’s probably bc Reddit’s original childfree subreddit is a special kind of toxic hellhole; even for Reddit… which is saying something.

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Most of Reddit was a toxic hellhole. It’s why I’m not on Reddit anymore.

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It seems like in almost every thread, there are at least one or two cranky individuals that just downvote for the hell of it.

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Downvotes on lemmy are pure spam. Good instances block them.

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I sort of see the appeal of having kids, but I can barely keep things together for myself. There’s no way I can support myself and kids. Even with my boyfriends income and mine, it’s just not realistic.

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14 points

Happy I didn’t fuck up my life and the lives of my progeny by birthing them.

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Every member of my lineage: “I will never do to my kids what my parents did to me” before doing exactly that.

Me: “I will never do to my kids what my parents did to me” fucking aced it

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Seriously like the most obvious fucking life hack.

Also, it’s generally super weird how everyone tries really hard to convince you that you are wrong about it. Like I could take all of the collective time people have spent trying to give me unsolicited input on some other random topic, and it wouldn’t even add up to a tenth of the time I’ve spent on the “why don’t you want kids?” Conversation. I’m sorry but that’s sus as fuck. Like some actual brain slug shit.

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