This thread has derailed massively to bashing working parents. I came here to discuss being childfree and choosing not to have children - couldn't give a tit about parents! Bit disappointed it has gone this way.
I think working parents have it tough (especially over the past eighteen months) but I also think that many employers create this us and them issue by just expecting childfree people to be around all the time, to not need holidays during school breaks and so on. For a start, it’s not necessarily fair, childfree doesn’t necessarily mean ‘carefree‘ and it’s only really recently that caring etc has been recognised as something that may impact on someone’s ability to always be present (mentally and physically) at work. And that affects parents as much as non-parents. You’ll often hear people making assumptions that just because someone has an older or adult child that child doesn’t need them as much, which might not be true for all kinds of reasons.This thread has derailed massively to bashing working parents. I came here to discuss being childfree and choosing not to have children - couldn't give a tit about parents! Bit disappointed it has gone this way.
My fault sorry, I was moaning about the perils of working with them, but in fairness it's only been for a few hours today so it's not that dramatic a derailment, so massively derailed is a bit of a stretch there!This thread has derailed massively to bashing working parents. I came here to discuss being childfree and choosing not to have children - couldn't give a tit about parents! Bit disappointed it has gone this way.
I don't agree that all of the comments here are "bashing" working parents.This thread has derailed massively to bashing working parents. I came here to discuss being childfree and choosing not to have children - couldn't give a tit about parents! Bit disappointed it has gone this way.
I wasn't trying to bash anyone either, I was complaining about one person because as a childfree person I'm expected to take the slack, but never mind...onwards we go. A new thread soon anyway so perhaps specificity in the title would be good.I don't agree that all of the comments here are "bashing" working parents.
I have been selected purposefully to cover certain days on support (namely Christmas Day and Boxing Day) and been expected to do over time I didn't ask for because I don't have children, my employer made that clear, particularly with the christmas period stuff. Its also been made clear to me as well that my reasons for not doing certain things or wanting certain flexibilities are totally inexplicable because I don't have children. These are realities of the workplace for some people.
I don't think that you were bashing parents. You pointed a problem that many childfree people (me included) have been through.I wasn't trying to bash anyone either, I was complaining about one person because as a childfree person I'm expected to take the slack, but never mind...onwards we go. A new thread soon anyway so perhaps specificity in the title would be good.
I stopped reading a few pages back when people started talking about getting pregnant and asking questions like if anyone was worried we are leaving it too late to get pregnant and came back today to see if it had moved on and it'd moved on to this. Like someone else said, hopefully the next thread will be more on topic.This thread has derailed massively to bashing working parents. I came here to discuss being childfree and choosing not to have children - couldn't give a tit about parents! Bit disappointed it has gone this way.
The title is simply ‘childfree’ - call me thick but that’s pretty open ended. Please specify exactly what we can and cannot talk about?I stopped reading a few pages back when people started talking about getting pregnant and asking questions like if anyone was worried we are leaving it too late to get pregnant and came back today to see if it had moved on and it'd moved on to this. Like someone else said, hopefully the next thread will be more on topic.
Agreed, as I understood this thread was for those of us who are child free by choice. Of course people are going to discuss the issues based on their own experiences/situations which is fine. However, I feel that those of us who do choose to be child free have so little outlet for our views/concerns that it would be a shame if the thread went too far off track.I stopped reading a few pages back when people started talking about getting pregnant and asking questions like if anyone was worried we are leaving it too late to get pregnant and came back today to see if it had moved on and it'd moved on to this. Like someone else said, hopefully the next thread will be more on topic.
As specified in the first post it's to talk about being childfree.The title is simply ‘childfree’ - call me thick but that’s pretty open ended. Please specify exactly what we can and cannot talk about?