Children are a major disappointment in most cases, which is why I say that the modern ideology of parenting is baloney. People who don’t have them aren’t missing anything they really need. They’re not helping keep the race in business, no, but they’re not suffering for it either.
Children are mainly hard work and lots of expense and very little return. Other than the tax write-off, which ought to be a whole lot bigger. They start off well enough, even amusing, but they soon grow into indifferent adolescents and, eventually, contrary adults who forget all about who brung ’em.
I used to wonder why my parents, especially my mother, kept bugging me to have children. Now I know. They were getting even.
Via Mouth of the Brazos.
THE TEXAS SCRIBBLER 