This is something my friend brought up and it got me thinking about this recently. But does the media portray what it’s like to have kids inaccurately? I never saw it until now but the more I think about it the more I notice it. But society has a huge obsession with people having kids and raising a family. Society often portrays parenthood as the best thing that could ever happen to your life and the only way to be fulfilled as a person. But does anybody not notice something wrong here? Being a parenthood is stressful, time consuming and people often become drifted apart from their friend because of it. Your life isn’t yours anymore once you’ve had kids. You need to raise that person 24/7 and make sure he grows up to be a good person. Imagine having a really stressful day at work and then coming back to even more stress. That’s what it’s like for most people. Not only that, but society also stigmatises people that say they regret having kids. What if people have kids, regret it, but then have to trick/convince themselves they actually like having those kids in the first place.

This makes allot more sense when you consider that 50% of pregnancies are accidental. Also allot of the reasons for having kids make no sense at all, some of these include: it’s in our instincts to have kids (it’s not, the fact that child free people exist proves that’s false), it’s just what we do (it’s a bad reason for having kids, it’s the same thing as saying “slavery is just what we do” and “discriminating against certain people is just what we do”) , I could go on.

What do you all think of this? Do you think any of it makes sense?

If you think this theory is crazy then look at all the other crazy things people say in our society, people will say our society is the greatest thing ever even though it hugely relies on wage slavery and makes people work to DEATH to be able to live. And people defend it like there’s nothing wrong with it.

Edit: allot of people are downvoting for reasons I can completely understand. I know it might look like I’m hating on kids, however if you think this, it is not the case, I do like kids, I even wanted one when I was younger, but after reading what having a kid is actually like and the responsibility’s I would have to take up, I decided it wasn’t for me.

The point I’m trying to make is that since corporations portray having kids as a good thing, that shapes peoples perception of what they expect from parenthood. However if it was portrayed by media television as a absolutely hellish nightmare, would you still want them? Would you like to have kids because of how media and television is telling you what it’s like? I bet you wouldn’t. Please read into this more clearly and question what you see in the media. When you consider that society makes people believes things that aren’t true and brainwashes them, this makes sense.