Without regret so far. Wait until the are over 70
At 70 years old, your kids will be fully formed adults with their own families and lives taking priority and they don’t have time for some senior citizen’s problems or diaper changes. womp womp
It’s hardly a gamble when your actions and life choices tip the scales.
People who complain about their kids not being a part of their life in their old age should spend their idle time considering how they raised said kids. If you do it right, they want to see you.
> At 70 years old, your kids will be fully formed adults with their own families and lives taking priority and they don’t have time for some senior citizen’s problems or diaper changes.
Having someone who cares about you is more than just listening to rambling stories and wiping your ass. It’s everything from a second pair of eyes watching out for your well being to a sense of connection to the future.
Parents and grandparents perceive their descendants' life as if it was a third person view game. Much of it happens of-screen and the controls are terrible, often worse than absent, but it still keeps them interested in the next day/month/year. If you only have your own remaining years to look forward to you have much less.
They do not express desire to have children. They do not have children. They do not regret that, even as their peers deal with theirs. What reason could possibly there be to believe that they would suddenly start regretting their decision after 70?
If it comes down to the fact they "won't have anyone to take care of them in their old age", I posit that their situation is not going to be very different from that of many bechilded people (modulo any money the childfree people might have saved by not having to provide for another human being), which will - and should, if having a "free" caretaker in their old age played a part in it - regret their decision.
The better question to ask wouldn't be continuing to ask "Really???" with increasing intensity, it would be to ask exactly why more people feel content with a child-free life. Is it something about changes to perception of meaning in life, religion and faith, society as a whole? Seems like a more interesting path to go down.
Why not just live the life you want and then check out on your own terms instead of rotting away in a filthy home?
(have elderly family who will die alone amongst strangers because they are not good people; lineage did them no good)
This shows no sign of slowing or correcting that I can see.
If that doesn't work out, we are properly spoiling our nephews and nieces as a backup plan. :)
The fact no one admits regret means someone is fibbing or you have not been looking very hard.
Or that none of the people sampled has any meaningful regrets.
I guess knowing a couple of people like that, it makes it difficult to believe that everyone really is all that satisfied with their life.
What should it tell me? That I want children but know I can't afford to have children? I already know that, and it's why I'm asking in the first place.
>The fact no one admits regret means someone is fibbing or you have not been looking very hard.
Two have admitted failure, which is to say they simply never found a person they wanted to have kids with. I don't consider this a decision subject to regret and neither did they.
“In this study, we compared how much adults age 70 and older said they’d want to change something about their life — in other words, whether they had any regrets about how their life had gone. We didn’t see any difference between childfree people and parents. This suggests that childfree people are similar to others in terms of life satisfaction and often don’t regret their decision later.”