People who like to say they hate children

[Dom Tuk]

As a parent how would you react to someone who says quite proudly that they hate children.

[ICEMANSAV]

I am not a Parent, but I hate children! I feel no pride in my viewpoint on children nor do i feel ashamed. I know this question is not directed to people without children, I just wondered why people who dislike children are so negatively viewed by you? Surely it is just a lifestyle choice with people deciding if they want or don't want offspring?

[Loosehead]

I don't think they really hate children per se, I think they hate the effect they have on their lives. I have children but I still find them irritating sometimes even my own. I think people hate having them running around and making noise in public they hate the attitude of some parants who find it absolutely remarkable that their little darling isn't adorable to everyone else too. They hate the "Child on Board" mentality. Am I right ICEMAN?

[ICEMANSAV]

In a nutshell loosehead!

[netibiza]

What I do not like are the people who don't have children who tell us parents what we are doing wrong doh and how badly behaved our kids are etc."I would not allow that"  type of thing.

[ICEMANSAV]

But is that annoyning because what they are saying is true? you cannot help what your kids are doing? or because they do not know hard it is to raise a child?

[netibiza]

no ICEMANSAV its annoying because they would have perfect children just by saying so.  I have no problem with people who hate children, but (and I do not mean you) don't tell us how to raise them - we do our best.

[netibiza]

........and unlike others I know, I know my kid was not perfect but she is human.

[Dom Tuk]

Icemansav, i do not feel strongly about anyone who professes a dislike for children. its just that i find it unnerving that people dont seem to think twice about saying this aloud in front of other parents. I ask because someone said this at work so i take it that my children are also part of that hated group. Fine....everyone is entitled to their hates and dislikes......but next time that person asks me anything about my child i am then entitled to say ' p155 off, you hate children so dont ask me about mine'. Would you then grant me that right??

[LordyGeordie]

I would say it depends how they're cooked

[ICEMANSAV]

There is a difference about being vocal about someones child i.e yours, and someone who does not particularily like children. I don't like children, yet I am pleasant to their parents and the children themselves out of common good manners. I would have told that bloke to **** off to if I was in that situation. Yet even though I do not like children I would still be pleasant to the parent as i know how important that child is to that person.

[Glossopswift]

I hate adults.

[jenstar]

I hate everybody.

[silly moo]

LordyGeordie - but could you manage a whole one?

[thikasabrik]

I'm a parent but I have to confess there are some children I hate.

If someone said that they hated ALL children I would wonder if that person had ever been a child themselves.....or did they simply slither fully formed from the sewers?

[Woodstock]

I was married for 18 years before I had children because I said I never wanted any.  I now have two boys and I know now why I never wanted any!!!!!!

[FP]

There are nice children and horrible children.  There are nice adults and horrible adults.  Bit silly to make a blanket statement saying 'I hate children'.  Children are young human beings - at what age do they become likeable?

Personally, I like some children, can tolerate some children and could strangle others!

If you take time to sit down and talk to children and actually listen to them and get to know them you will find that the majority are really quite nice little people.

[Chillum]

I'd hate you to hate my childeren. The others are a right bunch of fnckers though.

I don't like many children other than my own. One surprising thing about parenthood is that I'm amazed at how beautiful I now find them all. I was never a kiddie-kinda-bloke. Kids were kids, and that was that.Now that I walk my son down to school every day, you get to know the other kids and I just kook at the innocence and purity within them, it's just so bleedin' special, just so all about what humanity could be. I also look with sadness, when I see what will be lost.

[Kay]

Im with FP on this one. No need to put anything else as she's said it all.

[Dom Tuk]

Oi Fina, give it a rest will ya...i am trying to get this thread on the front page of the AB site either as current threads or most answered.  Come on ed give us a break.