Why did you have children?

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There have been discussions recently about having/not having children but I was wondering about the reasons for having them amongst those that have taken the plunge (so to speak!)

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Steve H said:

Clearly there is something built into us that means if we have kids we are likely to end up loving them and thinking is the best thing ever, it doesn’t always turn out that way but it’s a natural response with a pretty high hit rate.

But more than 50% in this poll that didn’t really want kids in the first place. I am not sure if it’s more upsetting to see the level of evolutionary biological brainwashing that happens, or if it’s worse to hear from the ones that it doesn’t work for and still feel as they did before they were tricked/coerced into it.

That might be overplaying it. I wasn’t sure I wanted children as my own childhood wasn’t great (parents divorced and they weren’t there for me). My wife was much keener. However I love being a dad and ironically I have a much better relationship with my daughter than my wife does.