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comment by OftenBen
OftenBen  ·  3419 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: It's Entirely Normal To Not Want Kids

    "Would I give a kid the issues my parents gave to me?"

I think of this in the much more global sense. What kind of world would I leave for a child?

I'm not confident that I will be able to build a better life for a child than my parents have built for me, and that's quite common in this generation. I have to try, but the odds suck, and likely the issues that I have will be worse for my children.