"Daughter, if that is true, then we regret having you."
The height of selfishness, and ignorant enough to admit and describe it.
What a lowlife.
I think that some people, if they were brutally honest with themselves, would admit that they should not have had their children when they did. Especially young or out-of-wedlock mothers. In that sense, they can regret having kids. But to look back over the kids’ entire childhood and still say that you regret having them is a monumental act of self-centeredness. Let’s see how this “mother” feels if her kids regret having her as their mother and dump her off in a nursing home to die alone.
Some people are damaged, they have children, and cannot love and value their children.
Some people are damaged, they want to have sex with people of their own gender.
Some people are damaged, they want a surgeon to re-make them in a different gender.
Plenty of people are damaged. It's always been that way -- by our very nature, we are all damaged to some extent. No one is perfect.
The central problem is this: Society now looks at the damaged people and says "Well, that's perfectly normal. Only a very bad person would criticize someone for being like that. By all means, carry on. Don't change! Don't repent! Don't try to do better! You are fine just the way you are: perfectly normal."
Until we regain the ability to judge the damaged people and say, "You're doing it wrong" our society will not get well.
Well Adam Lanza’s mom probably wondered what she ever did to deserve him...........
Great episode in Doc Martin where his mother tells him what a mistake it was to have him and how it ruined her life. Explains a lot about the Doc. Great series if you haven’t seen it.
And MSN posts this story in its “Living” section. What birdcage-lining trolls they are.
What she has to say is unpleasant, but it also sounds like this mom could have used some help and a few Mother's Day Outs. The loss of autonomy when one has small children is hard to deal with, and the culture does not value or honor motherhood anymore. They just provide the abortion clinics.
I'm willing to give her the benefit of a doubt, and hope that she finds some support and encouragement, which I think may be what she really wants, but doesn't know how to find it.
There are people to numerous to count who cannot have children and desperately want them. If parenting is too big a burden for this woman, she should give the child up for adoption to someone who would provide the child a loving home.
Well, unlike most people on FR, I do sympathize. I never wanted children, I don’t enjoy being around them, and I have no idea why anyone does. Now fortunately for me, I knew this at a very young age. I always said I’d never have kids (and people didn’t believe me, argued with me, scolded me) and I didn’t. I don’t regret it either. It’s a pity she didn’t recognize this about herself earlier in life: some of us are simply not cut out for parenthood. Better to know it and just don’t do it.
She must be a real piece of work. I’m stunned by the amount of self-absorption these days.
I’ve read this before. Sounds like a play, “The Doll’s House.”
Well come on give her a break, parents aren’t suppose to raise their kids, the community is.
Not only does she regret having her children, she feels the need to say so publicly. I hope the kids remember this when it’s time to pick her nursing home.
“reflect, read and enjoy her own company.”
Narcissism, pure and simple. Being a parent hasn’t taken away from my time to reflect, read and enjoy my own company, or even waste lots of time on Free Republic. Granted, some of that time for reading and whatnot has had to be done at very early hours, and we occasionally have had to say “no” to a child. The Horror!
