Very true, Dogsledder and CF uter.
Because I always have to tell stories, here is one:
I was a teenager when the book Kramer v. Kramer came out. I sneaked the book from my parents. It was a light read novel that was later made into a sappy movie starring Dustin Hoffman.
Short version: Unhappily married woman leaves husband + small child and gets a divorce, then wants the kid later.
Of course, the movie demonized the woman because she left her husband and kid. The book went into much more detail about how much her life sucked after she had a kid. She had been working outside the home, but her husband wouldn't hear of it after the kid was born. He stopped listening to her, and she was bored, lonely and frustrated.
But most of all, the book described the mind-numbingly boring tasks of her day. Raising a child requires a lot of repetition: changing diapers over and over; reading the same story 100 times; cheering every time the kid poops in the potty; listening to the kid say, "Lookitme!" and acting excited THOUSANDS of times over the course of your life when your kid does something that is really no big deal.
Even at a young age, the book made a huge impression on me. I read it and thought, shit, that sounds fucking horrible.
I believe there are people who love parenting...they love going through all the stages and doing three year old things again, but it would have been a total disaster for me. And there are parts that are boring and mind-numbing....I have a few friends IRL who admit this.