Your Thoughts On This Woman .....

[Ann]

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-2303588/The-mother-says-having-children-biggest-regret-life.html

I pity her poor children reading this - she should keep her thoughts to herself I think.

[Sharingan]

What a stupid woman, does she not understand that even if her children have come to terms with her lack of motherly feelings, she has now humiliated them in front of the whole world? I come from a huge family of step and half siblings and foundlings on all sides and the concept of this is so alien to me.
If she didn't want children that's okay; her mistake was marrying a man who did and assuming he would change his mind. I think she should shut up.

[Ann]

I think so too Sharingan, it makes me even sadder to read it as we would have loved children but were unable to have any. Why on earth did she go on to have a second baby with feelings like that?

[ChillDoubt]

To refer to your own young child as a parasite would lead one to reason that the woman is obviously not playing with a full deck and has psychological issues.

[Gran67]

There is soo many people like her out there.

[Ann]

I have just re-read the article thoroughly, i only skimmed it before and I have come to the conclusion that she is a horrible woman to humiliate her family in this way.

[baza]

horrible woman imo.

[friedgreentomato]

OK looking at this without emotion.

She is honest, she has not hurt her kids. She has brought her kids up, she has not abused her kids.

[ummmm]

You don't really know how you'll feel until you have a child.

We all presume that those maternal instincts will kick in as soon as we see our bundle of joy. It doesn't happen for everyone though.

Her kids are in their 30's. She hasn't humiliated a child.

[murraymints]

Weird selfish woman....all me me me....does not deserve the joy of motherhood....Will bite her on the bum !!!

[ummmm]

How will it bite her on the bum if it hasn't already?

[Booldawg]

tries to come across as intelligent and strong minded but lets herself down with flawed logic such as;

'Two years and four months after Stuart was born, I had my daughter Jo. It may seem perverse that I had a second child in view of my aversion to them, but I believe it is utterly selfish to have an only one.'

and its not utterley selfish to bring another child you dont want into the world?

[murraymints]

If I were one of her parasites ummmm, after reading this I'd want no more to do with her....

[AlwaysConfused]

She seems to be a real cold fish! Sharing her thoughts is not an issue, though. There are probably many people that can relate to what she is saying. I do have a problem with her allowing the photographs of her children. Even though they are older now, it seems a little unfair.

[ummmm]

I doubt she referred to them as parasites as they were growing up. She's just trying to describe her feelings for the article.

Just because she didn't feel that gushing love for her children doesn't mean she wasn't a good mother.

[friedgreentomato]

They are hardly children now - she can't help it if she does not feel maternal.

Her husband wanted the children so as she loved him she had children - she did not abuse the children and she is being honest that not everyone is a born mother!

[China Doll]

She seems to have been as best a mother as she could be. True in her situation I probably wouldn't have had children in the first place but different times and all that maybe.

I don't know... I don't think she's evil or horrible. I do think that her attitude may well have effected her children (the daughter who asked why she never said she loved her) but they seem to have come through. I also think that if I had these thoughts, I'd probably keep them to myself rather than risk upsetting my children. But all in all, I can't say I see her as a really bad person.

[ummmm]

Having the second child could have been a selfless act. She knew how she'd feel but wanted a sibling for her son.

[boxtops]

Not everyone wants children, I can understand that perspective - but to air this publicly is very callous, and I'd think could alienate her children (now they are adult they can view it from an adult perspective). She looks a cold fish, and her writing bears that out.

[mrs_overall]

Whatever her feelings are, she should have kept them to herself.
Why oh why do people feel the need to blab her innermost thoughts to the media?
It doesn't matter that the children are now adults, their emotions must be all over the place reading that.
The woman is an idiot.

[mrs_overall]

...blab *their* innermost thoughts....