https://www.stophavingkids.org/

Posted by freya

https://www.stophavingkids.org/
February 18, 2023

Registered: 9 years ago
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This is an antinatalism website rather than a childfree one, but it does defend the childfree. Mostly it is vegan and antinatalist.

Babies can't consent:
https://www.stophavingkids.org/no-desire-no-consent

Birth defects:
https://www.stophavingkids.org/birth-defects

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"When we procreate, we are imposing risks with lifelong implications onto other people, without their consent, and with the potential to subject our children to lifelong adversities they had no part in creating themselves. We are gambling with the future of those who never agreed to participate in a game with such unfavorable odds."

https://www.stophavingkids.org/parenthood-regret

An accurate paragraph summary of regretful parents/BM

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Insight into popular reasons people regret having kids:
" regular yearning for one’s past life where they felt more satiated and complete
feeling like the life has been sucked out from oneself / exhaustion
having to abandon ambitions that one had missed educational opportunities and opportunities in general
inability to enjoy the tranquility of one’s own company
loss of free time to pursue one’s own needs and desires
increase in negative environmental and suffering impact
losing an ability to invest into creative endeavors
diminished social life
frustration with added burdens and stressors
career downturn
expenses that often catalyzes a fall into poverty
suffocation / being trapped / feeling helpless (more often experienced by women since men, generally speaking, spend more time away from the kids)
lack of peace
loss of spontaneity
constant self-sacrificing
persistent thankless work
losing oneself / one’s identity
irritation with having to pretend (laughing at jokes that aren’t funny, being interested in a cartoon, etc.)
the realization that one has brought children into a decaying and abominable world
depression, anxiety, and other mental health ailments
worry
loneliness / isolation
boredom
decline in health / increase in weight
strain on relationship or marriage / divorce
less intimacy and sex, no sex, displeasing sex
one’s children triggering painful memories they’d rather forget / not think about
not having enough help
lack of fulfillment
an underlying feeling they were coerced into something they didn’t want
not ever feeling free (even after the kids move out) "

Escapism:
https://www.stophavingkids.org/escapism

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Why Create New Humans To Exist In A World You Distract Yourself From?

This is a great one! So many people are so distracted that they don't even think through their decision to procreate. Then reality has hit and they are desperate to escape the world they created. So their child grows up around parents that have checked out.

https://www.stophavingkids.org/antinatalism

If you scroll down, there is a bingo sheet.
New bingos:

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"Who will pay taxes?"

This has to be one of the most cringe worthy reasons I've heard of to replicated, to create a tax payer. What if the replicant is one out of 33 with a birth defect that puts them on lifelong disability and insures they suffer until death? Or part of the 20% who are intellectually unable to work in a job? And what about the brats who grow up to be cannon fodder?

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"Adoption is too expensive"

But self-replicating is so cheap! Tell it to the experts who say it takes over $250K to raise one child.
And that doesn't include difficult births which may result in hundreds of thousands to millions of dollars in hospital bills.

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