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[–] some_guy@lemmy.sdf.org 1 points 57 minutes ago

This was one of the main reasons I didn’t wanna have kids. After decades of therapy and working on myself, I’m finally at a point where I think I’d be an excellent parent but we’re old enough that I’m gonna remain childless. My older brother became a late-in-life father and he’s always afraid of dying before his kids are grown. No thanks.

[–] Hadriscus@lemm.ee 5 points 8 hours ago

I have this anxiety that being too focused on not repeating the errors of my parents will make me oblivious to swaths of different, preventable mistakes that will fuck up the child I do not have yet.

[–] FundMECFSResearch@lemmy.blahaj.zone 16 points 14 hours ago (1 children)
[–] scrion@lemmy.world 8 points 12 hours ago (1 children)

Change is possible, breaking the cycle is possible. It's only when the parents don't want to change themselves when everything becomes fucked up.

It's a kick-ass poem and having kids these days is at least questionable, but there is living proof out there that people can change and not everything is as bleak as it's made out to be.

[–] FundMECFSResearch@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 points 12 hours ago (1 children)

The poem was written semi-sarcastically. But it hits hard because there is truth to it.

Philip Larkin was not an anti-natalist.

[–] scrion@lemmy.world 2 points 11 hours ago (1 children)

Oh, I didn't want to imply that this was my opinion of Larkin.

Ok. Anyways yeah I think it’s a cool poem but I don’t agree with it.

[–] southsamurai@sh.itjust.works 1 points 9 hours ago

You gotta try though lol

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