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[–] sunbrrnslapper@lemmy.world 52 points 2 weeks ago (10 children)

There's nothing wrong with having kids. There's also nothing wrong with not having kids. Why are people so aggressive toward the other side?

[–] stickly@lemmy.world 15 points 2 weeks ago (4 children)

People overlook an obvious factor: having a kid physically changes your brain, and therefore how you perceive parenting. I know of lots of instances of this change happening anecdotally, someone radically changes their stance after an unplanned pregnancy.

Neither side is necessarily wrong, but choosing one or the other impacts who you are as a person so it's not as obvious as "I definitely [will/won't] regret it". So skip the social pressure and pro/anti natalist personal debates, but also don't hold too much blame against someone who struggles to grasp your mindset.

[–] MoffKalast@lemmy.world 16 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

in 2016, there was a group in Spain that first looked longitudinally at moms who were recruited before becoming pregnant and then scanned for a second time a few months after the birth of an infant. What they found is going to sound like a bad joke, but it’s actually we think a good thing, which is the brain got smaller. So it lost some gray matter volume between that first preconception time point and the postpartum scan.

It's official folks, having kids makes you an idiot :D

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