Do you regret having children?

Question

The finacial worries? The strain on your relationship? The loss of freedom? The many hours of boredom and lonlieness? Do you regret having them?

Answer 1

No.

Answer 2

Not in the slightest! There's been times when it's been hard and we've wondered where the next penny's been coming from but I'm lucky in the fact that i've got brilliant support from my family. I now have a good job, a nice house and will be going to uni in a couple of years. I also have 2 happy healthy little boys who are my life!

Answer 3

No, they're well worth it.  If I do at times feel worried about finances, etc,  then I just need to look at my two children and think how lucky I am.  I don't think having my children has put a strain on my relationship with my husband, infact quite the opposite, it has made us closer.  I have no regrets at all.

Answer 4

Anything worth doing is going to be challenging at times.  

No, I don't regret the path my life has taken at all.

Answer 5

I dont regret having them at all but it does get me down sometimes,not having the freedom etc.i wouldnt change it cuz i can carry on living my life once they have grown up

Answer 6

no, it's not easy but i wouldn't be without them. i love them to pieces.

Answer 7

i havent had any yet and by the looks of this i wont be planning on any soon

Answer 8

No.  Looking after my baby daughter has given me a sense of purpose that I never had before.  I do miss the relaxing holidays that my partner and I used to have but I'm sure that family holidays will be just as much fun in a different way!

Answer 9

never, they are the best thing that has happened to me.

Answer 10

No.  I do regret having my sons before I was in a better financial position, though.

At times I might be cross and think negative thoughts, but it soon passes.

Answer 11

No way. Wished I had waited a little longer maybe but untimately my son has changed my life completely - for the better. I love it!

Answer 12

No not at all. It hasn't been easy, I'm a single parent, and it's been d@mn hard, but they're almost grown now, so I have alot more freedom. Yipee.........

Answer 13

The fact that they dont taste good with ketchup and hot dogs are better

Answer 14

No i would never regret having my son... the only thing i would change is my age, i would like to have been a bit older.

Answer 15

No. Though our relationship has changed and we have less time for ourselves being a mum is great. We spend more time as a family and every few months we have a weekend to ourselves.

Money wise we seem better. As we do not go to the pub every weekend and eat takeways twice a week, the money we save just gets spent on our daughter. So we are not actually financially worse off.

We also make sure that we budget so we have a little left over for days outs and a holiday once a year.

I do not find my daughter boring. We do lots of activities like going to the park, toddler group, swimming, cooking, painting etc.

It can get lonely sometimes.

Answer 16

i dont regret having my children, when i was trying for children i had infertility problems , i thought i would never be able to have any and i was distraught, i thought life wouldnt be worth living without a baby.

looking back i now know that you can have a happy and fullfilling life without children and there can be positives to remaining childlless. however that is a lesson only learned with the benefit of hindsight.

my marriage ended in divorce and ive been raising my kids on my own for 9 years now...i still dont regret them, though i never planned on our lives being the way they are and it has made parenting a much harder job and to some extent less enjoyable than i had hoped for and experienced in the first few years when we were a traditional family.

i think for the majority of people no matter how difficult life gets regretting the children is not something that happens...the benefits far outweigh any negatives.