So, since the bookshop suggested it to me I spent a few days reading "We Need To Talk About Kevin" by Lionel Shriver, a book that could be considered the Bible of the childfree community. In fact, in the afterword she says that one of the reasons she wrote the book was to explain to her partner why she didn't want kids. Holy fuck is this a dark
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As far as the nature vs. nature debate I can see how this book is saying: don't have kids if you don't want them because you could fuck them up (also, don't get bullied into having kids. I hated the husband character throughout, even knowing the mother was an unreliable narrator!). AND you could also just have a monster through no fault of your own.
It happens. I've met kid sociopaths and adult sociopaths whose parents I would consider to be great parents.
One possibility that occurred to me at the end: the mother is also a sociopath.
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This is why I think it should be the book we hand to anyone who asks us why we don't want kids or bingos us.
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"raised by wolves can become"
Wolves would have done a BETTER job than THOSE people!
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