Could you accept the fact that your children remained childfree?

The title pretty much sums up my question. Would you be willing to accept your children remaining child free (childless by choice).


If not why?Could you accept the fact that your children remained childfree?
Of course I would, it's a personal choice. I would love to be a grandmother someday and I'm sure between my 4 boys I will be one but if any of them decided they didn't want children I would accept that. would have trouble understanding the choice because I can't imagine life without children but it's their choice.Could you accept the fact that your children remained childfree?
It makes no difference what the parents say, its totally up to the 'child' if they want kids or not. Any one that cannot accept the wishes of their grown children is risking losing them, its their life and their decisions and not anyone else's business. I've got 3 adult children and none of them wish to be parents. I would love a grandchild but its not my choice that counts. These days young people have the choice, thankfully, and don't have the pressures to reproduce as past generations did. Good luck to them.
i guess i would have to accept it. i will not ask them all the time if they have made it clear they are not having kids. I don't want to push them away or make them dread seeing me. However I would be very very sad. especially if both kids did it. My kids are still very very young but i am already thinking about my grand kids. It kind of gets me through the temper tanturms and daddy no. I look foward to being a grand dad spoiling them and not worrying so much about rules as grand parents do then sending them back.


It would feel like a dream was stolen from me if they decided not to have kids. Now if one had and the other didn't i would be much more accepting because i would have grand kids still
it is a choice and I wish more people would see it as such.I love my grand kids but I would never tell my kids they should or should not have children that's a personal choice that should be made by the two people ready to make that decision.So yes I would honor and accept there choice-but grand kids Rock.
well, of course. nobody should have to go through the huge undertaking that is parenting unless they want to (and no child should have to be part of a family that doesn't want or cherish him).





besides, what else could i do but accept such a decision? it's not as if it would be up to me.
My daughter will always be my daughter.





Why would i care if she had kids or not?





I hate the term 'childfree' though, it implies that children are a burden and something negative, when they're not.





They're human beings, and people are never a burden.
Whether you accept it or not is immaterial, it's ultimately their choice. You don't have to like it but there's nothing you can do about it.
I would fully support my daughter if she never wanted kids. That decision is completly her own and no one should try to change her mind. On the other hand if she said she wanted a football team of kids I would try to put her off as best I could lol
If that's what she decides she wants, then i am not going to step in her way. I would love to have grandchildren, but it's not my choice.
Yes that is there choice. All I want for my daughter when she gets older is to be happy. If not having children by her choice makes her happier that way then I would respect her choice.
Yes I would accept it, but I can't help but say that I would be disappointed.


With four children and with another one (hopefully) coming, I hope that at least one of them will have children :)
Yes.





All I ever want is them to be happy and if it was their decision to be childless, well I would support them all the way.
Absolutely! Child bearing is a personal decision. If my child decided to never have children it would be ok with me..
My parents better ******* accept it. Kids are leeches, wanna lick it up like peaches.
I probably wouldn't have a problem with that, but then again I don't even want kids myself.
Definitely.
Yes, and I have.
Whatever makes my kids happy I'm all for
yeh of course--- their life not mine