Hating babies & children

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I find it funny that we're told children are innocent, when they're actually the complete opposite. After all, a child dosen't know any of society's rules at all, a child could murder someone and not care.

There was a recent case when two ten year olds raped an eight year old girl, and a case a few years ago where two ten year olds abducted a younger boy and, in words of Wikipedia, "one of the boys threw blue Humbrol modelling paint into Bulger's left eye.[9] They kicked him and hit him with bricks, stones and a 22-pound (10.0 kg) iron bar, described in court as a railway fishplate.[19][20][21] They placed batteries in his mouth.[22] Bulger suffered ten skull fractures as a result of the iron bar striking his head. Alan Williams, the case's pathologist, speculated that Bulger suffered so many injuries that none could be isolated as the fatal blow.[23] Police suspected that there was a sexual element to the crime, since Bulger's shoes, stockings, trousers and underpants had been removed. [...] Before they left him, the boys laid Bulger across the railway tracks and weighted his head down with rubble, in the hope that a train would hit him and make his death appear to be an accident. After Bulger's killers left the scene, his body was cut in half by a train.[26]"

So, maybe the OP's reaction is healthy...

I don't like children, I could probably say that I hate babies. There's something grotesque about them that I can't place, when they're "clean" or when they're covered in food they're just foul. I can't think of one thing I like about those beasts.

As for that person who said people who don't like children shouldn't be let near small animals, that's just stupid. I could never consider harming an animal, I pick insects up in tissues and put them outside so that they're not stepped on. I've never considered burning ants with a maginifying glass or torturing a mouse to see what it does. They have nothing to do with each other.

hi Sparrow.

Never thought of that, but certainly makes sense.
I don't begrudge anyone for wanting/having kids, I just can't understand it.
Mainly for the reasons you list.
I am far too self involved to be a good parent.
Kids are "ok" in small doses if they are well behaved, but I don't enjoy them or want to be around them.
I don't feel a need to play with them or look at them. People coo and fawn over babies. Mostly women I think.
It's just not part of my world.

I am actually somewhat surprised that anyone here would want/could handle having kids.
Seems in congruent to me.


edit - to be clear. I don't "hate" babies or kids. I just don't have an interest in them.
The only time I do dislike them is when they invade my space w noise and jumping around.
And I will say this - kids today are completely out of control compared to when I was a kid.
Also, kids are so overly coddled today. Bike helmets, seat belt laws, all these medications, hip clothes, TV, video games, ipods blah blah blah - it's gross.

Not to sound like an old man, but when I was a kid we just played outside or inside (like me) and did what we were told and were not made to be little stars of the world.
That whole kid-centric culture is gross AND seeing these 16 yo girls on MTV who just HAVE to be mothers is depressing.
People like that procreate exponentially more than people with education & income.
This country is going down the tubes fast.

I love babies, but once children reach the age of 7, and they start becoming aware of individual differences, they creep me out. I hate being asked by a 7 year old, "Why are you so weird?" or "Why do you look down, when you talk to me'"

I don't like children, because they're loud, stinky and dirty.
Babies stink like hot milk mixed with poo and they are like autoalarm 24/7 on.

Kids don't come to me, they probably find me boring and not interesting. I'm the last person to be a babysitter.

Words can't describe how much I abhor babies and children. I don't get what the attraction with them is. They are loud and annoying, and you can't understand anything they say. I NEVER want to have children. *shudder* My #1 pet peeve and my top sensory issue after being wet is crying babies/children. I, like PunkyKat, have hated children my whole life, even when I was a child.

But like IdahoRose, I have always been fascinated with pregnancy/childbirth. I wanted to be an obstetrician when I was 4. Pregnancy was one of my biggest preschool-age special interests. I, too, just find the biology fascinating. I watch birth shows on Discovery Health all the time.
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I do think most newborns look pretty awful...I've never understood why people want to pass around "baby's first picture." Most babies look like some kind of alien, even if the conehead is hidden! The only cute picture of a newborn I've ever seen is my friend's daughter, who looked about 3 months old at birth. No conehead, and instead of being red and purple and wrinkly, she was pink and plump! (So, as you can tell, by the time a baby hits 3 months, I think they are cute.)

I love babies and children -- as long as they aren't mine. As a tutor, I spend a great deal of time with other people's children, and that's exactly what I want. I'm childfree (to me, that implies a choice, as opposed to childless -- people who want kids but don't have any) and happy this way. I like my life as it is. I enjoy playing with my nephews on the all-too-rare chances I get to see them, but I think I'd feel trapped if I had to care for them full-time. I like being able to give "my kids" (aka students) back after a couple hours!

Apparently I'm an unusual case. I have childfree friends. They all say the same -- they don't like babies or kids. And none of my friends -- those with kids, those who want kids, and those who don't -- can understand why I'm crazy about babies and kids (especially middle-schoolers) but absolutely, positively don't want any of my own. No drive to breed, here. My biological clock is set to dog.

I don't understand why people would hate babies and children, well children I can half understand but babies? What's so extremely unlikable about babies? I just don't see it. Sure they cry a lot and have tantrums in their terrible 2's, but so what.
I personally can't wait to have kids when I'm older.
A lot of you say "eew no I don't want kids ew ew they are horrible things!" but if you ever fell pregnant you would still love him/her, because you would have bonded with them when they were born and that's that. You might hate other kids but you wouldn't hate your own, unless you really are serious about hating ALL BABIES AND CHILDREN, then that would just be weird.
Also I've noticed some complaining about the baby smell, newborns smell lovely :3