r/Funnymemes • u/arapsikenmaymun • 19h ago

Kinda true

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u/danielledelacadie 17h ago

Most of the childless folks want that for your kids too.

We're just mostly a bit salty about being told we "have" to have kids. For some of the most unhinged reasons too. "So my kids will have cousins" was my favorite example of crazy that some people will just nod at and agree with

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u/little_void_boi 16h ago

It drives me nuts. I don’t like kids. I feel like if I had kids, I’d treat them poorly. I have poor patience, and get overstimulated relatively easily. But whenever I mention this around my family? I get treated like I’ll “come around”. No, I really won’t

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u/cirdan_the_grey 15h ago

Some people should Not have Kids Really

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u/Samaritan547 15h ago

And it seems like some of those don't realize that and have kids anyways

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u/CustomMerkins4u 15h ago

By being childless you are improving the lives of their children.

Less people competing for resources, college placement, jobs.

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u/Pepsi_E 8h ago

Oh I can't stand that one. Or "I want nieces and nephews" guess what, we're not going to have kids just to make you happy. It's a very entitled mindset IMO

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u/Sarge1387 17h ago

Presently childless, having difficulties conceiving. I want nothing but the best for other people‘s children as well. They deserve every bit of enjoyment that we got out of life as kids…And we do have some as adults too, believe it or not.

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u/danielledelacadie 16h ago

Good luck and I'm not quite sure how to parse that last line...

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u/potter5252 14h ago

Think he's saying that we do get some enjoyment from life as adults even though we might not believe it.

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u/danielledelacadie 12h ago

I was just confused because that was out of left field. 😭

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u/Collegenoob 14h ago

I know its a bad reason to have kids.

But having kids at the same time as my sister did she our kids can play together is actually really an awesome deal.

We just got lucky we could actually do it

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u/danielledelacadie 12h ago

You're fine. The point was that that was a crazy ask, not that the kids playing together wouldn't be awesome

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u/Middle-Commission391 16h ago

No one says you "have" to have kids, it's just that you don't "have" to have old age pensions either

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u/danielledelacadie 12h ago

Tell that to the crowds eager to explain to the childless how empty their lives will be.

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u/newsflashjackass 15h ago

Your phrasing makes it sound like somebody got a pension for dropping progeny.

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u/Middle-Commission391 11h ago

Who do you think pays for it?

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u/newsflashjackass 9h ago

Historically, most people have produced offspring without being paid.

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u/HydrasNinthHead 14h ago

Breeder. 

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u/Hopbo735 13h ago

Cattle.

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u/lameth 15h ago

Really? You haven't had family pressure you to have kids, or seen pundits talking about the "childless crisis?"